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Our human rights solicitor of the year 2020, Matthew Evans, director of the Advice on Individual Rights in Europe (AIRE) Centre, talks us through his experience of winning the Law Society award last year, and some of his proudest achievements to date.
We have written to the authorities in Belarus with our concerns about the revocation of the licenses to practise law of five Belarus lawyers who have been providing legal services to, among others, detained protestors and political opponents of the Belarus government.
I. Stephanie Boyce has become the 177th president of the Law Society of England and Wales, becoming the first Black office-holder and the second in-house solicitor in almost 50 years to do so.
Judicial review is an essential part of the functioning rule of law, acting as a check on power. Reforms should seek to strengthen it, as some of the changes recommended by the independent panel may well do.
We've joined with IBA Human Rights Institute for a session on the fact-finding mission on Venezuela at the 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
We've joined with notable organisations for a session with the special rapporteur on Iran at the 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.