The UK Human Rights Blog was launched on 31 March 2010 and is written by members of 1 Crown Office Row barristers’ Chambers.
In its first year, the blog was shortlisted for the Justice Human Rights Awards 2010, is now attracting around 60,000 page views per month and has over 9,000 subscribers across email, Facebook and Twitter. The blog has been acclaimed by legal commentators and posts are now syndicated by the Law Society.
The UK Human Rights Blog is a member of the Guardian Legal Network and Legal Week’s Legal Village, both of which re-publish our content on their sites regularly.
For 10 years, 1 Crown Office Row, the Chambers of Philip Havers QC, have run the widely acclaimed free Human Rights Update service. The UK Human Rights Blog aims to provide a free, comprehensive and balanced legal update service. Our intention is not to campaign on any particular issue, but rather to present both sides of the argument on issues which are often highly controversial.
Please read the introduction by Philip Havers QC, 1COR’s head of chambers. If you like the Blog, please do subscribe to our regular email updates. We would welcome your comments on any aspect of the site.
For an excellent review of legal blogging in the UK see this Legal Week article by Alex Aldridge and the UK Blawg Review #6 by Brian Inkster.
Editorial team
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Adam Wagner
1 Crown Office Row
Adam is the founding editor of the UK Human Rights Blog and has been longlisted for the 2011 Orwell Prize for blogging. He is a practising barrister and tenant at 1 Crown Office Row, specialising in public law, human rights and medical law. Before joining Chambers, Adam graduated from St Anne’s College, Oxford with a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and received an MA in International Relations from Columbia University.
Rosalind English
1 Crown Office Row
Rosalind is a former academic who now edits the Human Rights and Public Law Update online Journal and undertakes comparative and public law research for members of chambers. She also records and edits audiostreamed seminars for the resources section of the Chambers website. She edits and contributes to the National Health Legal Service’s Authority’s Human Rights NewsLetter.
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Angus McCullough QC
1 Crown Office Row
Angus McCullough has a practice which covers public law (including human rights), professional negligence, and regulatory and disciplinary law. He has particular expertise in the fields of health and the environment, and frequently appears in inquests. In 1997 he was appointed by the Attorney-General to the panel of Counsel to the Crown and in 2002 was appointed to the ‘A’ List of this panel. He was appointed a QC in 2010.
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About 1 Crown Office Row
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