London Metropolitan University Research Institutes
 

Philip Leach


Director 

Philip Leach is Professor of Human Rights, a solicitor, and Director of the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute at London Metropolitan University. He is Director of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) (also based at London Metropolitan University) which advises and assists Russian and Georgian NGOs in litigating before the European Court of Human Rights. He was formerly Legal Director of Liberty and of the Kurdish Human Rights Project and has extensive experience of representing applicants before the European Court, in particular against the UK, Turkey and Russia. 

He has conducted human rights training for the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the British Council, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Law Society of England and Wales, the Arab Lawyers’ Union and for various NGOs. 

Recent human rights research projects have been commissioned, or supported, by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the OSCE, Council of Europe, the Nuffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust. He is the author of ‘Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights’,
2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2005. He is a member of the Editorial Board of European Human Rights Law Review and a Trustee of the Media Legal Defence Initiative. In April 2009 he was appointed to the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody.

His recent publications include: 

  • Analysis: On Reform of the European Court of Human Rights [2009] European Human Rights Law Review 725-735
     
  • Evaluating the Impact of Selected Cases under the Human Rights Act on public service provision - report commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2009 (co-authored with Jenny Watson, Alice Donald & Liz Mottershaw)
     
  • International Human Rights and Fact-Finding – An analysis of the fact-finding missions conducted by the European Commission and Court of Human Rights, co-authored with Dr. Costas Paraskeva & Dr. Gordana Uzelac, Human Rights & Social Justice Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, February 2009.
     
  • The Chechen Conflict: Analysing the Oversight of the European Court of Human Rights [2008] European Human Rights Law Review 732-761
  • Human Rights in Britain since the Human Rights Act 1998: A Critical Review - report commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, April 2008 (co-authored with Jenny Watson & Alice Donald)

Contact details:

Email: p.leach@londonmet.ac.uk






 

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