Eric Metcalfe

Eric is a specialist in human rights, information law, public law and EU law.

He is direct access qualified.

He has advised and acted for a wide range of human rights organisations including the ACLU, the AIRE Centre, ARTICLE 19, the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Index on Censorship, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, JUSTICE (the UK section of the International Commission of Jurists), the Kurdish Human Rights Project, the Legal Resources Centre, Liberty, the Media Legal Defence Initiative, and Privacy International. He has carried out human rights work in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Russia, Rwanda, Taiwan and Turkey.

Called 1999.

He is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s A Panel and the general editor of Sweet & Maxwell’s Human Rights Law Reports. He was previously a member of the Attorney General’s B and C panels, an external fellow of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and the director of human rights policy at JUSTICE, the UK section of the International Commission of Jurists. He is direct access qualified.

BA, LLB (University of Canterbury, NZ), LL.M. (Queen’s University, Canada), D Phil (Oxon).