<html><body dir="auto"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="99%" style="width:99.5%;background:#FFFFCC"><tbody><tr style="height:1305.3pt"><td valign="top" style="padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;height:1305.3pt"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="943" style="width:707.2pt"><tbody><tr style="height:229.75pt"><td width="943" style="width:707.2pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:229.75pt"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="943" style="width:707.2pt"><tbody><tr style="height:879.85pt"><td width="490" valign="top" style="width:367.4pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:879.85pt"><h3 style="margin-top:3.0pt;background:white"><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour-law-liverpool-0"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:#1F4D78;text-decoration:none"></span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><br></span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Wednesday 21 October 2015, Liverpool</span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#773B6A"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h2 style="mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:13.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><br></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#7030A0">Go to our <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour-law-liverpool-0"><span style="color:#7030A0;font-weight:normal">website</span></a> to book.</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#7030A0">Cost: </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#413839;font-weight:normal">A discount is available to those who pay upfront (before the date of the conference) by cheque.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>An online special offer is available to those who pay upfront via Paypal.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Those who pay by invoice will pay full price.</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="431" style="width:322.9pt;background:white;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:.95pt"><td valign="top" style="padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;height:.95pt"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#413839">Payment up front</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#413839"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#413839">£75 Subscribers and members<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#413839">£90 Trade Unions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#413839">£220 Lawyers<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;height:.95pt"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#413839">Payment by invoice</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#413839"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#413839">£80 Subscribers and members<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#413839">£100 Trade Unions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#413839">£240 Lawyers<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>PLEASE NOTE: the cost of the conference does not include lunch</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Places are limited, with some reserved for the press, so please book early to secure your place.<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="453" valign="top" style="width:339.75pt;border:none;border-left:dashed #CCCCCC 1.0pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:879.85pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#C00000"><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour-law-liverpool-0"><span style="color:#C00000">Submit your booking forms now</span><b><span style="color:#C00000"> </span></b><span style="color:#C00000">for our 2015 Human rights conference</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:#C00000"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">At the Tory party conference in 2014, Cameron announced that he was ready to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights. In April 2015 that threat was included in the Conservative Party election manifesto, reflecting Tory plans to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a British Bill of Rights.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">So what would be the impact of such a change on workers’ rights? To begin with it would enable British Judges to ignore rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and would undermine the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – the international treaty first drafted in the post-war years to protect fundamental rights and freedoms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A flood of watchdogs and organisations have come out against the move, which despite government claims, is clearly intended to remove rather than strengthen civil liberties and will further deregulate and remove health and safety and employment protections from the statute book.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#FFC000"><br>Programme:</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">10.00 Human Rights: A post-election overview <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <i>Michelle Farrell, Liverpool Law School<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">10.30 Surveillance and monitoring at work: How much is too <br> much? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <i>Shah Qureshi & Peter Daly. Bindmans Solicitors <span class="caps">LLP</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">11.00 Questions and discussion <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">11:15 BREAK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">11:30 Whistleblowing, freedom of expression and Article 10 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> of the European Convention on Human Rights<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <i>Dominique Lauterburg. <br> Senior Lecturer, Manchester Law School.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">12.00 Article 11<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <i>Neil Todd. Thompsons Solicitors.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">12.30 Questions and discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">12.45 LUNCH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1.45 Access to justice: Article 6 and the right to a fair <br> hearing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <i>Nicole Busby. <br> Deputy Head of the Law School University of <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Strathclyde.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">2.15 How to raise complaints to international bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <i>Daniel Blackburn. <span class="caps">ICTUR</span></i></span><span class="caps"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="caps"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">2.45 Trade union rights are human rights<br> <i>Hannah Reed. 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