Child sex abuse inquiry chair to deliver Macfadyen Lecture

The judge chairing the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is to deliver the 2016 Macfadyen Lecture, organised by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting.

This year's event in the series, held in memory of the late Lord Macfadyen, takes place at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. The Hon Lowell Goddard will speak on the title "Making Rights Real: the developing role of human rights in the exercise of public law discretion".

With a large and growing number of statutes, regulations and policies conferring on public bodies decisions which impact guaranteed human rights, she will examine how the powers so conferred can be exercised consistently with the human rights guaranteed in the European Convention and equivalent constitutional documents in comparative jurisdictions, the responses of the courts to the important question of how human rights are to be applied in practice, and the implications of different approaches for frontline decision-makers, for judicial review and for related mechanisms that exist to supervise compliance with human rights in the modern administrative state.

The lecture will begin at 6pm and will be followed by a reception.

Tickets are free to all interested in attending, although spaces are limited. Click here to register.