2009 Articles and speeches
2009 Articles and speeches
Highlights of the articles, speeches, lectures and interviews by Liberty staff in 2009
Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti writes about faith in the workplace, 26 November 2009
Annual Employment Lawyers Association Lecture delivered by Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti, 19 November 2009 (PDF)
Shami Chakrabarti's guest column in the Sun newspaper, 6 November 2009 (PDF)
Liberty Director writes a guest column in the Sun newspaper, October 23 2009 (PDF)
Liberty Policy Officer Anita Coles calls for parliamentarians to stand
up for future Gary McKinnons and change our extradition laws, 1 August,
2009
Policy Officer Anita Coles writes in The Guardian about unfair extradition, 16 July 2009
Big Brother is still watching... Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty,
reflects on George Orwell's novel '1984' sixty years on, July 2009
Read this year's Mishcon Lecture, given by Liberty's Director, Shami
Chakrabarti. The Mishcon Lectures were established in 1990 in honour of
Lord Mishcon to mark his 75th birthday and in recognition of his
achievements and service in the fields of law, education, religion,
government and politics, both central and local. (PDF)
Read Lord Bingham's inspiring speech about the Human Rights Act at Liberty's Common Values conference, June 2009 (PDF)
Liberty’s Bridget Beale looks at how a vital part of our democracy can be safeguarded, 16 April 2009
The government’s marching song of “nothing to hide, nothing to fear”
sounds increasing hollow, writes Policy Director Isabella Sankey, 25 May
2009
Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti writes that despite the Government’s
attempts to spin the DNA database issue, the Big Brother state is very
much alive, 7 May 2009
Liberty Legal Officer Anna Fairclough explains how the Home Office is
trying to justify intrusion into privacy rights with inconclusive and
misleading 'research', 7 May 2009
Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti writes in The Times about the way
that the Damian Green affair and the disastrous fallout from the G20
protests show how our liberties have been compromised, 18 April 2009