Helen Mountfield KC

Titled “Whatever happened to the Human Rights Act?”, Ms Mountfield’s lecture will review political attacks on the Human Rights Act 1998 since it came into force, and ask what can be done to embed human rights values in political discourse.

The free event, sponsored by Pinsent Masons, will take place at The Signet Library in Edinburgh on Wednesday 28 February 2024, 6pm-7.30pm. Tickets must be booked in advance on the JUSTICE website.

Ms Mountfield is a recognised expert in constitutional and human rights law, who has appeared over 30 times in the Supreme Court, Privy Council and European Court of Human Rights.

She appeared as leading counsel for the ‘People’s Challenge’ in Miller v Secretary of State for Exiting the EU (“Miller 1”, the Article 50 case), and for the Welsh Assembly Government in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Bill reference concerning the constitutionality of incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law.

Ms Mountfield also writes and speaks frequently on legal issues. She is co-author of eight editions of the Blackstone Guide to the Human Rights Act 1998 (eighth edition due 2024), and was the Legal 500’s Public and Administrative Law KC of the Year in 2022.

A former member of the JUSTICE Council, she has served on the boards of many NGOs and is currently a trustee of Index on Censorship.