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LibLink: Lord Anthony Lester: With human rights under threat, there is a pressing need to celebrate Human Rights Day

For Human Rights Day, Anthony Lester wrote for the Huffington Post. He addressed criticisms of it made in the media:

Last week The Times ran an editorial calling on Parliament to “end the absurdities of the Human Rights Act”. It argued that the Human Rights Act is redundant because “the country of Locke and Blackstone already had an unmatched body of law to protect the truly vulnerable”. That is surprising given the many cases where our law failed to do just that. As a barrister, I have represented newspapers on many occasions using the Human Rights Act and the Convention to

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