EUROPEAN CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS
CAMPAIGN AGAINST CRIMINALISING COMMUNITIES
BAR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OF ENGLAND AND WALES

HAldane SocIety of SOcialist Lawyers AND
STATEWATCH

Blacklisted:

Targeted sanctions, pre-emptive security and fundamental rights

Meeting: Monday, 21 February 2011 at 6:30pm

Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ

In December 2010, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) published a detailed critique of the terrorist blacklisting regimes operated by the United Nations and the European Union.

The Report, written by Gavin Sullivan (ECCHR) and Ben Hayes (Statewatch), with a foreword by the UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Martin Scheinin, provides a comprehensive review of the development and implementation of the ‘terrorism list’ regimes over the last decade. The Report endorses the growing body of expert legal opinion that these regimes are fundamentally incompatible with the most basic standards of due process. Moving beyond the frame of human rights, the Report goes on to examine how the listing regimes, have criminalised self-determination movements, institutionalised suspicion of diaspora communities and undermined initiatives for development and conflict resolution around the world. In conclusion, it is argued that the policy of blacklisting now faces a crisis of legitimacy such that the UN Security Council Resolutions underpinning these regimes should be annulled.

The authors of the report will present their findings and, together along with legal experts from the UK engage in a critical discussion on the blacklisting regimes and the ways they can be challenged and changed. The report is available online at: www.ecchr.eu/publications.html and www.societiesofcontrol.cc.

Chaired by:

Prof Bill Bowring, Executive Committee member of the Bar Human Rights Committee, International Secretary of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, and Chair of EHRAC

Addresses by:

Gavin Sullivan and Ben Hayes, co-authors of the ECCHR report “Blacklisted: Target Sanctions, Preemptive Security and Fundamental Rights”

Anne McMurdie and Henry Miller, Public Law Solicitors and Birnberg Peirce & Partners Solicitors

Dr Eric Metcalfe, Director of Human Rights Policy, Justice

Mark Muller QC, Chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee

1.5 CPD available to barristers

Please feel free to circulate widely

Please note that numbers for this event are limited.

To guarantee attendance or for further information, please contact

Ms Sally Longworth, BHRC Project Coordinator (+44 207 993 7755 / bhrc@compuserve.com)

Or, for further information contact CAMPACC: (+44 207 586 5892/ estella24@tiscali.co.uk )