Category: rights

Death of the Emperor

There has been a lot of news coverage over the shooting of the red deer stag known as the Emperor of Exmoor. I have been to Exmoor many times and have seen the hunters out with their guns…

The Limits to Rights

What are rights? Can they only be ascribed to human beings or also to animals… the environment… inanimate objects? Jonathon Wolff, Christopher Stone and Kenan Malik discuss these questions on the BBC Radio 4 ‘Law in Action’ programme. It…

Gay Rights, Faith and the Law

As many of you will have noticed, attempts to block the Sexual Orientation Regulations in the House of Lords have failed. A number of faith groups had objected to the regulations. The rules mean that people who offer…