Five Ideas to Fight for

? Human Rights
? Equality
? Free Speech
? Privacy
? The Rule of Law
These five ideas are vitally important to the way of life we enjoy today. The battle to establish them in law was long and difficult, and Anthony Lester was at the heart of the thirty-year campaign that resulted in the Human Rights Act, as well as the struggle for race and gender equality that culminated in the Equality Act of 2010.
Today, however, our society is at risk of becoming less equal. From Snowden¿s revelations about the power and reach of our own intelligence agencies to the treatment of British Muslims, our civil liberties are under threat as never before. The internet leaves our privacy in jeopardy in myriad ways, our efforts to combat extremism curtail free speech, and cuts to legal aid and interference with access to justice endanger the rule of law. A fierce argument for why we must act now to ensure the survival of the ideals that enable us to live freely, Five Ideas to Fight For is a revealing account of what we need to protect our hard-won rights and freedoms.

About the author

Anthony Lester QC is Britain’s most eminent human rights lawyer. In 2007, he received the Liberty and Justice Judges’ Award for a lifetime of achievement in the service of human rights. He is a Liberal Democrat Peer and a frequent commentator on law and public policy.

Summary

One of Britain’s leading human rights lawyers examines the laws essential to our freedom and confronts the escalation of government power

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Lester, Lester Anthony
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781786070883
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-088-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Civil Rights, Politics & government, Politics and government, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Civics and citizenship, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Social discrimination and social justice, Law, citizenship and rights for the lay person