In this episode, made for Human Rights Day 2021, Lady Brenda Hale, former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, joins Andy McClenaghan to discuss some of the most significant aspects of a career steeped in human rights and family law.

They reflect on Lady Hale’s role, as Law Commissioner, in shaping the Children Act 1989 and examine thorny issues of competing human rights, diving into the example of mandatory Covid-19 vaccination of adult services social workers. 

The conversation also considers the impacts of the two-tier legal framework concerning civil and political rights and social and economic rights, and Lady Hale shares her views on how to maintain civility amidst impassioned debate on divisive issues.  

More information on Lady Hale’s autobiography, ‘Spider Woman: A Life’ is available here https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59235446-spider-woman and the 2019 Scarman Lecture referenced in the episode is available here https://www.supremecourt.uk/docs/speech-191113.pdf.

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