Children's rights and the Human Rights Act - Cameron-Wong McDermott

The Global Justice Academy presents

Children's rights and the Human Rights Act

 

About the seminar: 
Children’s rights protections are in grave danger of being eroded by the UK Government’s proposals to reform the Human Rights Act. By incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic law, the Human Rights Act has been critical to advancing children’s rights in Scotland. The Act has empowered children whose rights have been violated to obtain a remedy in national courts, rather than having to go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. This seminar will explain how the Human Rights Act and its provisions protect the rights of children, illustrating its impact through selected case-law examples. It will also examine how proposals by the UK Government to reform the Human Rights Act would undermine children’s rights protections.

 

About the Presenter: 

Cameron-Wong McDermott (he/him) is a policy officer at the Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland. He previously worked as a lawyer in the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights, where he assisted in the drafting of judgments concerning the UK and Ireland. He has also worked as a solicitor in Scotland, for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and in private practice. He has a particular interest in the system of human rights protection established by the European Convention on Human Rights, and the mechanisms to enforce the Convention in the UK

 

This event is free and open to all, no registration necessary.

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