Paul Sieghart Memorial Lecture

The annual Paul Sieghart Memorial Lecture was held in memory of the great contribution made by Paul Sieghart to the advancement of human rights throughout the UK. Paul Sieghart was instrumental in making BIHR a success in its earlier years. His son, William Sieghart, is a member of BIHR’s Advisory Board.

25 July 2006
Do wicked people have human rights?
Speaker: Justice Albie Sachs, Constitutional Court of South Africa
Response provided by The Rt Hon. the Baroness Hale of Richmond, now a Patron of BIHR.
Justice Sachs discussed four cases of the South African Constitutional Court. Read the transcript of the lecture.

6 July 2005
Law and human rights
Professor Amartya Sen
A report on this lecture can be found in the summer 2005 edition of our newsletter

7 July 2004
What can the Human Rights Act do for my mental health?
Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond

3 April 2003
Are we failing the family? Human rights, children and the meaning of family in the twenty-first century.
Rt Hon Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss DBE, President of the Family Division of the High Court

18 April 2002
Can there be a general theory of human rights?
Professor Ronald Dworkin, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, UCL

22 November 2001
Human Rights and Democracy
Luzius Wildhaber, President of the European Court of Human Rights

6 April 2000
The Protection of Human Rights – Lessons from Northern Ireland
Professor Brice Dickson, Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission

20 April 1999
Activism and Restraint: Human Rights and the Interpretative Process
Lord Irvine of Lairg, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

1 April 1998
A New Gravy Train for Lawyers: A Human Right to Damages?
The Rt. Hon. Lord Browne-Wilkinson

1 May 1997
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Protection of Human Rights
Prof. Antonio Cassese, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

22 May 1996
Ten Years on the U.N. Human Rights Committee – Some Thoughts upon Parting
Her Excellency Judge Rosalyn Higgins DBE QC

14 March 1995
Human Rights – A 21st Century Agenda
The Hon. Mr. Justice Stephen Sedley

10 March 1994
Taking Human Rights Seriously
Lord Lester of Herne Hill

8 March 1993
The State of Prisons
Judge Stephen Tumin, H.M. Inspector of Prisons

17 Feb 1992
Human Rights in Europe – New Dimensions
Mr. Francis Jacobs QC, Advocate General of the European Court of Justice