Michael Smyth is a partner at Clifford Chance and head of the firm’s public policy practice. He is the author of Business and the Human Rights Act and Chairman of two UK charities, the Social Welfare Law Coalition and Public Concern at Work. He is Consulting Editor of the UK Human Rights Law Reports.
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"Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of democratic life. It is by the free exchange of ideas among citizens about how they should live together and how they should be governed that we create and sustain the democratic society. So the rights to free association and expression are scarcely less important than the right to live in peace and free from want."
