Amicus Curiae Briefs – Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales

Amicus Curiae Briefs Projects ReportsApril 6, 2026

BHRC and NGO Partners File Third Party Submission to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights Advisory Opinion Proceedings Concerning Obligations of States with Respect to the Climate Crisis

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (‘BHRC’) together with NGO Partners: Africa Institute for Energy Governance, Congolese Alert for Environment and Human Rights, Legal and Human Rights Centre, Youth for Green Communities, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Organisation, and Lawyers for Lawyers filed a joint Third Party Submission before the African Court on Human...

Amicus Curiae Briefs In the Media News PublicationsNovember 12, 2025

BHRC Files Third-Party Intervention in European Court of Human Rights Case: Brachveli and Romanadze v Georgia

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has filed a third-party intervention in the case of Brachveli and Romanadze v Georgia, currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights. The case concerns the administrative arrest, detention, and fining of two protestors who participated in a peaceful demonstration in Tbilisi on 2...

Amicus Curiae Briefs In the Media Publications Statements and LettersJuly 25, 2025

BHRC files submission in Advisory Proceedings at Inter American Court of Human Rights

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales filed a submission with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concerning the advisory proceedings on the question of democracy in the Inter-American human rights system. The advisory proceedings were commenced at the request of the State of Guatemala. BHRC’s submission sought to highlight jurisprudence from the...

Amicus Curiae Briefs In the Media News Statements and LettersMarch 7, 2025

BHRC welcomes Appeals Decision in United States of America v Al Nashiri

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales issues a Press Release on the Appeals Decision of the Court of Military Commissions Review in United States of America v Al Nashiri. Following a trial observation in the case of United States of America v Al-Nashiri, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales...

Amicus Curiae Briefs News Projects Reports Trial ObservationsSeptember 30, 2023

BHRC submits Al Nashiri amicus brief to the Court of Military Commission Review

On 18th August 2023 the Military Commission in the case of United States of America v Al-Nashiri gave a ruling on a request for the suppression (or exclusion) of statements made by Mr Al-Nashiri to US Government officials in January 2007 after he was officially returned to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility following four years...

Amicus Curiae Briefs News Statements and LettersNovember 25, 2021

Turkey: BHRC and ARTICLE 19 submit expert opinion in the Saturday Mothers/People case

On Monday, 22 November 2021, Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales (BHRC) and ARTICLE 19 submitted an expert opinion in the case of Saturday Mothers/People. The defendants face between six months to three years of detention for their involvement in a peaceful protest on 25 August 2018. The next hearing of the case...

Amicus Curiae Briefs NewsSeptember 18, 2020

Turkey’s mass surveillance case: BHRC submits third party intervention to the UN Human Rights Committee

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales has submitted a third party intervention in the case of Gençay Bastimar v Turkey CCPR Case No. 3592/2019. The intervention was submitted by BHRC Vice-Chair Stephen Cragg QC from Doughty Street Chambers, and BHRC member Monica Feria-Tinta. Stuart Kerr, from Karis Solicitors, assisted with the draft. This is one...

Amicus Curiae Briefs News Publications Statements and LettersJuly 29, 2020

BHRC urges the King of Bahrain to halt executions of two men convicted on basis of confession allegedly extracted under torture

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) has called on the King of Bahrain to suspend or commute the death sentences of Mohamed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa in an open letter sent today. Mr Ramadan and Mr Moosa were convicted of carrying out a 2014 bombing in Bahrain. Both men allege...

Amicus Curiae Briefs NewsJuly 12, 2020

BHRC submits amicus to the Bahrain Court of Cassation in “fundamentally flawed” proceedings against two men on death row who allege they were tortured

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Kingdom of Bahrain’s Court of Cassation with respect to Mohamed Ramadan and Husain Moosa, two men facing execution in Bahrain. Mr Ramadan and Mr Moosa were convicted of carrying out a 2014 bombing in Bahrain. Both men allege...

Amicus Curiae Briefs News PublicationsFebruary 22, 2019

BHRC issues Amicus to the Guantanamo Bay Military Tribunal on torture derived evidence

BHRC published its amicus brief to the Guantanamo Bay Military Tribunal in the case of Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, also known as Ammar al Baluchi. Kirsty Brimelow QC, former Chair of BHRC (2012-2018) and co-writer of the amicus said: “Guantanamo Bay remains a stain in legal history. Currently prosecutions are attempting to secure a footing...

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