InBrief

Lord Thomas Bingham, former senior law lord of the United Kingdom, will deliver a lecture�entitled "The Role of a Charter of Rights in Promoting Dignity, Fairness and Good Government" in recognition of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.�The lecture will take place�on Thursday, 11 December 2008 at�5.00pm in�the Banco Court.� Chief Justice Spigelman AC will chair the lecture, with President Anna Katzmann SC to deliver the vote of thanks.�

Lord Bingham of Cornhill retired after�eight years as senior law lord of the House of Lords in September 2008.�Described recently by The Times as ‘the pre-eminent lawyer of his generation with a brilliant, incisive mind’, Lord Bingham is a leading human rights jurist.�His landmark rulings under the Human Rights Act 1998 (UK) and the European Convention on Human Rights have contributed significantly to promoting and protecting fundamental rights and freedoms and the rule of law in the UK and beyond.

Lord Bingham took silk in 1972.� He was appointed a judge of the High Court in 1980 and promoted to the Court of Appeal in 1986.� His lordship became master of the rolls in 1992 and then lord chief justice of England and Wales in 1996.

3 December 2008