Lord Robert Walker - 'What Difference can a Human Rights Charter Make?'

In this paper, 'What Difference can a Human Rights Charter Make?', delivered to a joint seminar of the Human Rights Law Resource Centre and the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission on 15 August 2007, Lord Robert Walker of the UK House of Lords reflects on his experience ‘judging’ human rights under the UK Human Rights Act 1998.  The paper considers the difference that a Charter of Human Rights can make to the enjoyment and protection of human dignity, respect, equality and freedom.