Select Committee · Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Enforcing Human Rights

Status: Closed Opened: 4 Dec 2017 Closed: 13 Sep 2018 1 report

Inquiry scope

Human rights have been central to the UK constitution and its legal system throughout its history. The following section of Magna Carta remains in force today, and can be found on the Government’s legislation website. “We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.” For rights to be effective they have to be capable of being enforced. For that enforcement, it is essential to have: adequate access to legal information, advice and assistance for everyone at all income levels and in all areas of the country a robustly independent judiciary a robustly independent legal profession a strong Equality and Human Rights Commission, held accountable for its work, and strong National Human Rights Institutions in the devolved administrations, similarly held accountable a culture which understands the concept of the rule of law, respects human rights and accepts that they will be enforced and which is supported by the Government Government response published Read the Government response

Reports

1 report

10th Report - Enforcing Human Rights

HC No.: HC 669
Published: 19 Jul 2018
Items: 0
Response: Response document linked: Government response to the Enforcing Rights … Read government response ↗

Oral evidence sessions

7 sessions

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Date	Session and witnesses	Source
23 May 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
9 May 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
2 May 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
18 Apr 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
14 Mar 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
7 Mar 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
28 Feb 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗

Correspondence

2 letters

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Published	Direction	Letter
16 May 2018	To committee	Response from Rt Hon David Gauke MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice regarding inquiry into Enforcement of Rights
14 Mar 2018	To committee	Letter from Chair to Rt Hon David Gauke MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice regarding inquiry into Enforcement of Rights