Attended a wonderful presentation by Horia Mosadiq at QUB's Human Rights Centre today. She is so convincing on the need to call out the Taliban for their gender apartheid.

Edinburgh to be 1st Scottish city to ban pavement parking - BBC News Good to see Edinburgh making progress on pavement parking ban - it’s taken years to work through the details there, the sooner we start the process in Belfast the better #pavements4people bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

SEN Reform NI has sent this email to EA Senior Leaders, media, DoE & MLAs. Also enclosed was lived experiences of our members, which were quite frankly heartbreaking. We are calling upon the recipients to step up in relation to the crisis affecting our children.
#educationforall

Out in paperback today

The Judicial Mind: A Festschrift for Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore

Inspirational reading on an inspirational judge by a group of inspirational thinkers in their own right
(the self excluded)

bloomsbury.com/uk/judicial-mi…

BREAKING: Mauricio Pochettino has signed a contract to become the next Chelsea manager 🔵

Not the usual polling day for me and mum this year but we took our obligatory Mother-Daughter photo as she’s still my biggest supporter and will be cheering me on at 10pm this evening when I’m on BBC The View

Tune in to BBC 1 at 22:40 this for some musings about #LGE23 💛

Outstanding QUBHumanRightsCentre seminar today by QUB School of Law colleague Professor Brice Dickson

Valuable insights into international human rights monitoring mechanisms.

In NLJ this week, Brice Dickson Brice Dickson of Queen’s University Belfast takes a look under the bonnet of the Supreme Court: newlawjournal.co.uk/content/nlj-th…

Good to get a hard copy of this in my hands at last.

Prof Brice Dickson: The UK's Engagement With International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms ukhumanrightsblog.com/2022/12/05/pro… via UK Human Rights Blog

Great to see my son-in-law's new book publshed today. I'm sure it will be as fascinating and insightful as all his previous ones. Well done John!

What a very sad day for human rights in the UK. The government is proposing to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and replace it with a much weaker Bill of rights 2022: bills.parliament.uk/bills/3227. Such petty-mindedness.

Petition · Ban the sale of machetes · Change.org

A friend of mine has launched this petition after he was robbed at the point of a machete in London. change.org/p/ban-the-sale…

What is the Good Friday Agreement? The New Decade, New Approach agreement? Why does Northern Ireland have obligatory power-sharing?

Brice Dickson explains all in this post 👇

constitutionallawmatters.org/2022/04/devolu…

It was lovely to have Lord Kerr’s family and so many of his friends at this event, even though invitations had to be limited because of Covid restrictions.

The kind of abuse Colin has had to deal with is obnoxious.

Great to see the EHRLR starting up anew after Jonathan Cooper’s very sad and untimely demise.

We are delighted to announce our new General Editors are Kirsty Hughes (Kirsty Hughes) Stevie Martin (@stevie_s_martin) and Stephanie Palmer (@Stephan79607769). They are honoured to continue the work of Jonathan Cooper OBE who was an inspiration to all who work in human rights.

Pleased to see this published before the end of 2021. Brian Kerr’s passing in December 2020 still seems unreal.

Christmas reading sorted, thanks to Conor McCormick and Brice Dickson. Also chapters from Claire Archbold, Prof Gráinne McKeever, Rory O'Connell, Aileen McHarg @[email protected] and Lady Hale to look forward to!