ARTICLES & SPEECHES

• John Harris Memorial Police Foundation Lecture

• Read Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti's Police Foundation lecture to senior police officers, politicians and judges, on the way that the role of the police has been undermined by political pressure from successive governments. Wednesday 2 June, 2008

• Mail on Sunday - Why David Davis was right to make a stand

• Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti writes about David Davis resignation as Shadow Home Secretary in the Mail on Sunday, 15 June 2008.

• Comment is Free - The crazy politics of 42 days 

• Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti writes that detention without charge tramples rights won over centuries, and urges Labour MPs to resist prolonging it just for party posturing, June 2008.

• The Sunday Times - Brown's U-Turn on Terror

• Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti writes in The Sunday Times about the political context of the Counter Terrorism Bill, April 2008.

• Terrorism detention without charge: How many days is enough?

• Policy Director Gareth Crossman questions the Government's claims that a longer detention period is necessary for the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, April 2008.

• Comment is Free - Who's Listening?

• Article about privacy rights and new legislation by Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti, 21 February 2008

• Comment is Free - Conviction politics

• Liberty's Director Shami Chakrabarti discusses secret surveillance and the use of intercept evidence in court, 07 February 2008

• Comment is Free - So much for habeas corpus

• Shami Chakrabarti condemns new powers to detain suspects for six weeks, arguing that the proposals trash centuries of British justice and shame us in the eyes of the world, 24 January 2008

• The Guardian - Liberty begins at home

• Liberty's Director Shami Chakrabarti writes for the Guardian politics section on the erosion of British moral authority by our failure to practise what we preach to the world on human rights, 08 January 2008

• Prospect - A justified campaign

• Liberty's Director Shami Chakrabarti writes in Prospect magazine about our Charge or Release campaign to stop the Government extending pre-charge detention beyond 28 days, December 2007

• Comment is Free - A mine of information

• Liberty's Policy Director Gareth Crossman questions the government's power to trawl our personal details, 22 November 2007

• Comment is Free - Draconian detention

• Policy Officer Jago Russell asks how the Government can justify extending pre-charge detention when the UK has the longest pre-charge limit for suspects compared to 15 other countries, 12 November 2007

• BBC Radio 4 - Any Questions?

• Shami Chakrabarti answers questions from the public on BBC Radio 4's 'Any Questions?' Transcript available, 9 November 2007

• Comment is Free - What about accountability?

• Shami Chakrabarti calls for accountability at the highest levels of police and government in this Guardian Comment is Free article, 1 November 2007

• Comment is Free - Damaging our way of life

• Shami Chakrabarti gives her answer to The Guardian's question 'Can terrorism destroy democracy?' 30 September 2007

• BBC Radio 4 - Any Questions?

• Transcript of BBC Radio 4's 'Any Questions?' programme on Friday 29 June 2007. Guests include Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti. An audio file is also available at this link.

• This would be internment

• Shami Chakrabarti on extension of pre-charge detention periods. Published in The Guardian, June 5 2007.

• We risk the values that make Britain worth defending

• Shami Chakrabarti on why we can never resort to torture. Published in The Independent, 29 May 2007.

• The first victim of war.....compromising civil liberties

• Liberty's Policy Director Gareth Crossman and Director Shami Chakrabarti - first published in The Smith Institute publication 'Britain and Security', 2007.

• Cafe Politique - A censored society?

• Shami Chakrabarti speaks about her feelings on an increase in censorship in our society. Hosted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (North) and Culture North East, April 07. (Audio file)

• BBC Radio 4's Lent Talks 2007

• Shami Chakrabarti reflecting on the trial of Jesus as part of BBC Radio 4's Lent Talks - a series involving six well-known figures reflecting on the story of Jesus' ministry and Passion from the perspective of their own personal and professional experience, March 07.

• Yet another step along a dangerous road

• Shami Chakrabarti on why we should value our personal privacy. Published in The Independent on the 15 January 07.

• Quashing Convictions

• Liberty's Legal Director James Welch's article, published in Barrister Magazine, December 06.

• Troublous Times - Young People, Citizenship and Respect

• Shami Chakrabarti's 'Hooper Lecture', given to the Citizenship Foundation, November 06.

• A Look Ahead to Human Rights and Civil Liberties in the Next Session

• Gareth Crossman and Shami Chakrabarti on what the next session of Parliament may have in store for human rights and civil liberties. Published in The Parliamentary Monitor, October 06.

• These Values Separate Democrats from Dictators and Terrorists

• Shami Chakrabarti's speech to the Conservative Party Conference, October 06.

• Reflections on Zahid Mubarek Case

• Shami Chakrabarti reflects on the case of Zahid Mubarek, the twenty-one year old man murdered while in custody at Feltham Young Offenders Institute in March 2000. Published in Community Care Magazine, July 06.

• The Human Rights Act

• Gareth Crossman on the importance of protecting the Human Rights Act. Published in Legal Action Gazette, May 06.

• Good Night and Good Luck

• Shami Chakrabarti's review of the George Clooney film about free speech in McCarthy era USA, published in 'Catalyst' May 06.

• Counter-Terror Security Checks: Hidden Victims

• Joanne Sawyer on the 'kafkaesque world of security checks'. Published in the Independent Lawyer magazine in April 06.

• Terrorism and the Rule of Law

• Shami Chakrabarti's speech at the LSE's 'Rule of Law' lecture series, March 06.

• Asbomania: from social and natural justice to mob rule?

• Shami Chakrabarti's Lunchtime Lecture for the British Institute of Human Rights, January 06.

• Rights, Freedoms and Terror

• Shami Chakrabarti's 'Hands Lecture' at Mansfield College Oxford, October 05

• Terror detainees win appeal, but what now?

• Joanne Sawyer and Shami Chakrabarti on the implications of the Law Lords ruling on the illegality of detention without trial. Published in Legal Action magazine in January 05

• The End of Innocence

• Shami Chakrabarti's lecture at the Centre for Public Law in Cambridge. November 04

• Asbos and Human Rights

• Alex Gask's article on anti-social behaviour orders and human rights.

• Freedom in Blair's Britain

• Shami Chakrabarti's lecture at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, February 04

• The State of our Liberty: Human Rights and Civil Liberties in the UK

• The 19th 'Norfolk Lecture', given by Shami Chakrabarti at the University of East Anglia, November 03