Tag Archives: Rule of Law

Myanmar and the rule of law

Lord Soley 20/12/2011 – 10:00 pm

I had a useful meeting with the Ambassador of Myanmar last week. He and his deputy were interested in the rule of law project I have established in Abu Dhabi and Palestine. This regime is now keen to change and have entered into meaningful discussions with Aung San Suu Kyi. So I am looking at the possibility of helping to establish links with legal groups and academia here to see if we can assist […]

Written at 10:00 pm on 20/12/2011, by Lord Soley

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Middle East Rule of Law

Lord Soley 18/03/2011 – 7:30 am

Following my discussion with the High representative of Palestine in the UK and the Emirates Ambassador the post graduate school of law is now well on its way to completion and hopefully will take students from Palestine later this year. I think they are being a little optimistic about starting this year but enthusiasm counts for a lot! Zayed University ( http://www.zu.ac.ae/main/en/ ) in Abu […]

Written at 7:30 am on 18/03/2011, by Lord Soley


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Libya and the Middle East

Lord Soley 27/02/2011 – 6:33 pm

  It is a humbling experience to watch the incredible bravery of the Libyan people and the cool headed approach of so many Arabs in the current upheavals throughout the region. None of us can be sure how this will end but I am personally very encouraged and more inclined to optimism than pessimism. For years the rest of the world has struggled to know how best to deal with these governments w […]

Written at 6:33 pm on 27/02/2011, by Lord Soley


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Nobel Prize and Parliament Square

Lord Soley 10/12/2010 – 7:48 pm

I was surveying the wreckage from yesterday’s demonstration when I noticed something that says a lot about British democracy and the rule of law. The long running protest by Brian Haw (now joined by others) has been an unsightly part of Parliament Square for some years and various attempts have been made to end it. All failed. His legal rights are protected. As usual today tourists were ta […]

Written at 7:48 pm on 10/12/2010, by Lord Soley


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The Rule of Law at Risk?

Baroness Deech 03/10/2010 – 3:53 pm

I  returned recently from a legal conference in S Africa about the Rule of Law, attended by equal numbers of British and S African lawyers and judges.  The legal profession in S Africa is of the highest quality; even at the height of apartheid their judges bravely defended human rights (although not always).  British law students study at the outset of their course the S African judgment in Ha […]

Written at 3:53 pm on 03/10/2010, by Baroness Deech


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