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LNB NEWS: MoJ publishes policy paper on responding to human rights judgements

06 December 2022
Categories: Legal News , Human rights , EU
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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published a policy paper titled, ‘Responding to human rights judgements: 2021 to 2022’, which sets out the government’s position on the implementation of human rights judgements from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the UK domestic courts under the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998). 

Lexis®Library update: It considers wider developments in human rights, statistics, earlier ECtHR judgements, new ECtHR judgements and declarations of incompatibility.

The full policy paper is accessible here.

This content was first published by LNB News / Lexis®Library, a LexisNexis® company, on 5 December 2022 and is published with permission. Further information can be found at: www.lexisnexis.co.uk.

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