IMRAN KHAN is one of the leading human rights and criminal lawyers in Europe. His career began representing Stephen Lawrence, the British teenager stabbed to death in a racially motivated attack in 1993, and his work on the case led to the establishment of the Stephen Lawrence Enquiry, which in 1999 highlighted serious flaws in the police's handling of the case and declared the Metropolitan Police institutionally racist.

We are delighted to host Mr Khan for a speech entitled "Does Britain Need Europe's Human Rights Laws?"

Mr Khan's speech will be followed by a discussion by panel of experts and those at the forefront of the field:

PROF FRANCESCA KLUG OBE

Francesca Klug is a Professorial Research Fellow at the LSE and Director of the Human Rights Futures Project. Francesca was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Human Rights Incorporation Project at King’s College Law School where she assisted the government in devising the model for incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law reflected in the Human Rights Act.

From 2006-09 Francesca was a Commissioner on the statutory Equality and Human Rights Commission. She is a frequent broadcaster and has written widely on human rights, including Values for a Godless Age: the story of the UK Bill of Rights (Penguin, 2000). Francesca’s column for the Guardian’s Comment is Free, ‘Blogging the Bill of Rights’, was published as a booklet by Liberty in June 2010. Francesca was awarded the Bernard Crick prize for the best article published by Political Quarterly in 2009 at the annual George Orwell Prize event in May 2010. Francesca was subsequently appointed as a member of the Political Quarterly Editorial Board. She co-edited a Special Issue of the European Human Rights Law Review, published in December 2010, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Human Rights Act.

ANTHONY SPEAIGHT QC

Anthony Speaight QC is a self-employed barrister at 4 Pump Court, Temple, and a member of the independent Commission on a UK Bill of Rights, set up by the Government in March 2011 to investigate the creation of alternative human rights legislation specific to the United Kingdom. He has a varied civil practice, including professional negligence, construction and regulatory work which has involved cases considering the impact of the Human Rights Act on professional discipline and financial regulation.

MARC GLENDENING
Campaign manager of People's Pledge.

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