Rachel Logan
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Jul 6 2018 5:47PM
There are hundreds of cases of the British government planning or paying for extraordinary rendition. It's time they stop turning a blind eye to their role in torture and carry out a full, judge-led inquiry.
Apr 26 2018 10:00AM
By Rachel Logan, Amnesty UK's Law and Human Rights Programme Director Cards on the table early: Amnesty International takes no position on Brexit. We are interested only in ensuring people’s rights and protections – something the gover...
Nov 20 2017 1:00PM
By Rachel Logan, Amnesty UK's Law and Human Rights Programme Director It’s time to talk about Brexit. Not the rights and wrongs of the decision. Not whether we’re on course for a hard or soft exit. Not even whether we’re going to be fo...
Nov 7 2017 7:00AM
By Rachel Logan (Law & Human Rights Programme Director) and Joshua Franco (Researcher/Advisor on Technology & Human Rights) At around 4pm on a Wednesday afternoon in July 2015, a short, one-paragraph e-mail arrived at the offices of Am...
Jan 19 2017 5:00PM
This week, we celebrated Justice Minister Oliver Heald QC finally announcing a timetable for the long-awaited review of the drastic cuts the coalition made to legal aid in 2013. So far, so dry (and it was – it’s January). But please, s...
May 9 2016 5:19PM
IN or OUT that’s the question, but the debate before parliament today and the speech from the Home Secretary last week ventured to propose an altogether different Brexit: not from the EU, but from the European Convention on Human Right...
Feb 14 2016 6:20PM
‘Break the link’, they say, ‘limit the reach, ignore it, defy it’. There’s little love for the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) from the UK government at the moment. It makes me wonder whether our politicians have any understandi...
Oct 2 2015 10:52AM
Crack open the champagne and hang up the bunting – the Human Rights Act is 15 years old today. Okay, maybe not the bunting, but it really is a moment to celebrate. The Human Rights Act has made it easier for every one of us to protect...
About me
I am a practising barrister who leads Amnesty International UK’s strategic litigation. Areas of expertise include the application of international human rights law in the UK, counter-terrorism, access to justice, privacy law, and Brexit and human rights. In 2018, I helped lead the first successful case (on mass surveillance) against the UK security services. I am the author of several Amnesty reports and a frequent media commentator. Follow me @rachelrlogan.