Speeches to note: McKenzie Stuart Lecture, Cambridge University

29/10/2007

On�25 October 2007 Britain's lord chancellor and secretary of state for justice, Jack Straw, laid out plans for the future of British human rights legislation in the annual Mackenzie Stuart Lecture at Cambridge University's Faculty of Law. In the speech, he said, "If you read certain newspapers you might be forgiven for thinking that human rights were an alien imposition foisted upon us by 'the other'. It is a misconception that has regrettably taken root."

"A central theme of my lecture this evening is to explode this myth, and to demonstrate how far from being some European imposition, Britain has been at the forefront of the political and legal development of human rights across Europe and across the world", he said.

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29 October 2007

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