On Thursday 30 November 2023, the President of the ECtHR Síofra O’Leary delivered the annual Mackenzie Stuart Lecture for Cambridge University's Centre for European Legal Studies on 'Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters'. In the lecture President O'Leary discusses the relationship between the United Kingdom and the Convention, the role of the Convention as an instrument of peace and stability in Europe, the right to access to justice, the rule of law and the continued importance of the Convention in Europe and beyond.
A recording of the lecture can be found here.