Liberty x Baroness Hale

Bringing legal insight, lived experience and current threats into the same conversation.

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As a Special Adviser to Liberty, I invited Baroness Brenda Hale, former President of the UK Supreme Court, to Liberty House to discuss emerging threats to the European Convention on Human Rights and the rule of law.

Almost a decade earlier, Baroness Hale had presided over the Supreme Court case that my partner and I brought on equal civil partnerships. Her court’s unanimous 5–0 ruling led to a change in the law, extending civil partnerships to all couples - a good example of the public benefit of the human rights framework.

The conversation brought together expert perspectives to consider what approaches might be applied in the face of current challenges.

This is typical of how I work: connecting people across law, philanthropy and campaigning, and grounding discussions in both experience and the realities of how change happens.