{"id":5954,"date":"2015-06-05T10:28:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T10:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/magna-carta-series-norwich"},"modified":"2015-06-05T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T10:28:05","slug":"bihr-magna-carta-series-from-magna-carta-to-the-bill-of-rights-1998-why-your-human-rights-act-needs-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2015\/06\/05\/bihr-magna-carta-series-from-magna-carta-to-the-bill-of-rights-1998-why-your-human-rights-act-needs-you\/","title":{"rendered":"BIHR Magna Carta Series: From Magna Carta to the Bill of Rights 1998: Why your Human Rights Act needs You"},"content":{"rendered":" BIHR&rsquo;s Director, Stephen Bowen, was delighted to be invited to Norwich by the Sheriff of Norwich William Armstrong OBE and Junior Lawyers Division of the Norfolk and Norwich Law Society on 3 March 2015 to kick off the city&rsquo;s Magna Carta Norwich 2015 lecture series.\r\nWilliam Armstrong said: &ldquo;The fundamental messages of Magna Carta are that no-one is above the law and everyone is entitled to justice. Although sealed in an age very different from our own, its principles continue to have relevance and it remains a symbol of our liberties and rights.&rdquo;\r\nCouncillor Alan Waters, Norwich City Council&rsquo;s deputy leader and cabinet member for resources said: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s really important to celebrate this anniversary, not just in a bid to preserve our history but also for its relevance to us today. The Magna Carta is the basis of our fundamental civil liberties; some of which are currently under threat.&rdquo;\r\nPart of BIHR&rsquo;s Magna Carta Series of public lec... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/magna-carta-series-norwich\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BIHR&rsquo;s Director, Stephen Bowen, was delighted to be invited to Norwich by the Sheriff of Norwich William Armstrong OBE and Junior Lawyers Division of the Norfolk and Norwich Law Society on 3 March 2015 to kick off the city&rsquo;s Magna Carta No&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5955,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}