10 December was International Human Rights Day, and this edition features the first of a special two-part Human Rights feature. Brief thanks Greg McIntyre SC (former President of the Law Society) for his erudite and insightful Foreword, which introduces the contributing authors and their articles, and provides thought-provoking comments on issues ventilated by them. The next (February 2022) edition will have Part 2 of this Human Rights feature, so please feel free, empowered and at liberty (puns partially intended) to give Brief any feedback you have about this edition.