On 12 June 2025 legal professionals, bar association representatives, academics, human rights advocates, and journalists from around the world gathered online and in person in Brussels, Belgium to participate in the 2025 International Fair Trial Day (IFTD) Conference and Ebru Timtik Award focused on Tunisia. This year, the spotlight was on Tunisia, where the independence...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales has today published its follow up to the 2023 report on judicial independence in Hong Kong SAR using the American Bar Association ROLI Toolkit & Methodology. The question of judicial independence has loomed large in Hong Kong in recent years and a critical analysis of the...
The Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) announces the launch of their new report titled ‘Court Observation of the Israeli Military Courts in the West Bank’ authored by Darryl Hutcheon, Natasha Jackson, and Sahar T. Sadoughi. The Report features the observations following Darryl Hutcheon and Natasha Jackson’s visit between January and February 2023 of the Israeli...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales is pleased to publish its Biennial Report for 2022-2023, which highlights and spotlights the extraordinary work, activities, initiatives and advocacy of BHRC, our partners and our members in this two-year reporting period. With a foreword by the immediate past Chair Stephen Cragg KC, Barrister at...
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...
The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) and BHRC, supported by the Right to Enter campaign, have collaborated on a new report on Israel’s recent rules on the entry and residence of foreign nationals in the West Bank, published this week. Israel’s new rules on the entry and residence of foreign nationals in the...
On 01 June 2023, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) launched its latest Guantanamo Military Commissions Trial Observation Report with a virtual panel event. Chaired by Stephen Cragg KC, Chair of BHRC, this event brought together an expert panel which consisted of J Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights...
© Jack Hong / Shutterstock BHRC has today released a Special Report on Judicial Independence in Hong Kong SAR, which applies the ABA Judicial Independence Monitor Toolkit designed to assess vulnerabilities and strengths of judicial independence in different jurisdictions. The BHRC report concisely and authoritatively sets out the current situation and critical challenges to judicial...
Download High-Res Report Here and Download Low-Res Report Here The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales and the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative are proud to release this new joint report, The Edge of Law: A regional approach to confronting key legal challenges. The Report synthesises the findings of a path...
Further to a highly welcomed decision by the US to approve BHRC as one of only two non-US NGOs with International Observer status, BHRC has for many years kept a watching brief on the use of the detention facility at the United States Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and procedural developments in the Military Commissions...
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