Human Rights (Joint Committee)
1 July 2026
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Committee Actual start House of Lords
17:42 - 19:51
Speaker 1
Order. Welcome to today's meeting of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. It's the fourth of this session, the 54th of this Parliament. The clue to our mandate for anyone who's new to our work is in our committee's name.
We're a rare parliamentary committee comprised of members of both Houses of Parliament, six from the House of Commons, six from the House of Lords, drawn from different traditions and backgrounds. Our committee's numerous reports are available on our website, and I would note that our report on transnational repression was referred to extensively in yesterday's House of Lords debate on the National Security State Threats Bill, and that our report on supply chain transparency and modern-day slavery was referred to by members of the House of Commons during their Westminster Hall debate on June the 18th, and both of those transcripts are available on the Hansard site. We will also be having a full House of Lords debate on that report on Friday, September the 4th.
Meanwhile, we're nearing completion of other reports on children in social care and their human rights and our inquiry into artificial intelligence and human rights. Today, though, we return to our inquiry entitled Security, Safety and Protest: The Role of Human Rights. This second oral evidence question session will examine how protest powers are applied in practice, focusing on how policing professionals interpret and implement the current legal framework when managing protest.
It will explore how officers balance the duty to facilitate a peaceful assembly with the rights of others, including how key thresholds such as serious disruption are understood and actually applied on the ground. The session will be framed by established human rights standards, in particular Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights on freedom of expression and assembly, alongside the rights of those affected by protest activity, including the right to respect for private life under Article 8.
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