Parliament and the law

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For students and teachers alike international human rights values are perhaps easy to relate to. Translating those values into a more gritty understanding of how the law implements human rights has been cited as particularly difficult to teach. We have brought together a group of six teachers across the key stages who want to develop a fuller understanding of human rights and UK law. We invited Cherie Booth QC, an expert in human rights litigation to work with our teachers to expand their legal literacy and knowledge of rights and legal processes. Through grappling with some of the core concepts we follow them as they develop lessons for KS4 students using Cherie as their legal expert in and out of the classroom. In this film Polly and Darren from Wanstead High School in north London look at Parliament's role in developing and upholding human rights in the UK. They take their students to meet Lord Judd and tussle with finding relevant UK case-studies to use in the classroom.