Law and Rights
It is a huge pity that we must take the Conservative Party's document "Protecting human rights in the UK" seriously .......... but, we must! A considerable number of notable bloggers and commentators have already offered their analyses of it (e.g. Liberty) and they are mostly impressed only by the fact that it is legally illiterate.
It is a plan to do anything but protect human rights. Rather it is a plan - should there be a Conservative government with a sufficient majority to force this through Parliament - to enhance the power of the executive and to weaken protections given in law to citizens. The British citizen could end up with less human rights protection in domestic law than the citizen of (say) Germany. But wait ! It might even be that the English citizen will end up with less protection than those living under the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. That's because those administrations may well choose not to accept this policy on behalf of their citizens.
A fuller look at this dog's dinner to follow ...............!
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Law and Rights
Protecting Human Rights ! Don't make me laugh ....!
It is a plan to do anything but protect human rights. Rather it is a plan - should there be a Conservative government with a sufficient majority to force this through Parliament - to enhance the power of the executive and to weaken protections given in law to citizens. The British citizen could end up with less human rights protection in domestic law than the citizen of (say) Germany. But wait ! It might even be that the English citizen will end up with less protection than those living under the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. That's because those administrations may well choose not to accept this policy on behalf of their citizens.
A fuller look at this dog's dinner to follow ...............!
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- The Worst Of All Possible Worlds: The Conservative Party?s Human Rights Proposals
Steve Peers Today the UK Conservative party has formally unveiled its proposals for reforming the system of human rights protection in the UK. I will comment further on their implications for EU law soon. But for now, I want to address the fundamental...
- Human Rights ~ Some Weekend Reading
Update: Addendum - Monday 18th May The week since the General Election (previous post) has seen a massive amount of comment about the government's intentions to "scrap" the Human Rights Act 1998. None of the detailed plans have yet emerged from...
- Human Rights ~ Battle Lines Are Forming
The new Conservative government is committed to repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998 and also to the introduction of a British Bill of Rights. I looked at this last Sunday (here) and noted: "Scrapping" the HRA is a Conservative manifesto commitment...
- Our Fundamental Rights On The Brink ~ Some Thoughts On Sunday Morning
The very essence of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is respect for human dignity. The ECHR is an instrument for the protection of individual human beings. The Convention sets out certain principles which ought to apply in civilised...
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Rarely, if ever, has a British government engaged in such an assault on justice than the present coalition. The brunt of the assault applies to England and Wales since justice matters are mostly devolved to Scotland and Northern Ireland. (The...