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A British Bill of Rights: going nowhere?

29 April 2022 / Michael Zander KC
Issue: 7976 / Categories: Features , Constitutional law , Human rights
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Is Dominic Raab’s project doomed? Michael Zander reports on criticism from across the legal spectrum
  • With the next steps on the government’s proposals for reform of the Human Rights Act 1998 cautiously awaited, key figures including retired Lord Justice Sir Peter Gross, former justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland, and the Law Society have already made their criticisms known.

The government’s consultation on the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) closed on 8 March 2022. We are in the waiting stage while Dominic Raab, the justice secretary, decides which, if any, of his proposals in the consultation document to put forward in legislation.

The consultation document was published on 14 December 2021, together with the report of the Independent Human Rights Act Review (IHRAR) chaired by retired Lord Justice, Sir Peter Gross (see ‘The assault on liberty updated’, NLJ, 7 & 14 January 2022, p7).

On 30 March, Sir Peter Gross spoke at University College London (UCL) about the independent review (available to watch here).

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