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LNB NEWS: JCHR publishes report on Bill of Rights Bill

26 January 2023
Categories: Legal News , Human rights
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The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has published a report detailing its scrutiny of the proposed Bill of Rights Bill. 

Lexis®Library update: In the report, the JCHR has urged the government not to proceed with the Bill, and has suggested that the Bill would obstruct the principle of judicial review and undermine the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) by creating large scale uncertainty, damaging people’s ability to enforce their rights, and would likely result in more people needing to go to the European Court of Human Rights to enforce their rights leading to an increase in adverse judgments made against the UK.

The Committee has also stated that it should not be a priority for the government in the current economic and political climate and have questioned whether the Bill should continue to be considered at all.

The report is accessible here.

This content was first published by LNB News / Lexis®Library, a LexisNexis® company, on 25 January 2023 and is published with permission. Further information can be found at: www.lexisnexis.co.uk.

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