Human rights: immensely important, but so little knownPart 1 – Article 6 ECHR and the right to a fair trial Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/iFPQxyxmMpU
Corona must not affect the rule of law
The corona crisis forced the government to announce far-reaching mandatory and urgent measures in the context of our safety, health and well-being. No problem, is our first impression, as these measures will hopefully help to fight and overcome the corona virus. Some of these measures...
tourists
In his column entitled 'BAS' (De Morgen, 11 May 2020), Hans Vandeweghe takes a close look at the arbitrators of the Belgian Arbitration Court for Sport. He says those arbitrators are, without exception, lawyers, calling them “tourists, trained to make a hundred and one arguments to avoid confusion…
Contact research, an invasion of your privacy?
Since the start of the corona crisis, there has been a lot of discussion about how to trace and follow up the contacts that infected persons maintained during the incubation period in order to limit the further spread of the epidemic. Initially, it seemed that they wanted to monitor this via so-called contact tracing apps....
Johan Vande Lanotte in De Standaard about the Turkey Tribunal
'There are 1001 reasons to get back into politics', says Johan Vande Lanotte. “But there's one thing not to do, and that's that I stopped. And it will stay that way.' Yet the new-fangled human rights lawyer is critical of how this country is managing the crisis. 'I...
