In an excoriating piece, Bindman notes the government’s proposals for reforming the Human Rights Act 1998 ignores the advice of the Gross review, in fact ‘flatly contradicting Gross’s recommendations’.
He warns that, rather than wanting to remove weaknesses in the law, the government appears motivated by an ‘isolationist mindset at the very time when international commerce, climate change, the spread of disease, and even the very survival of life on the planet demand maximal commitment to international coordination and jurisdiction’.
Bindman writes: ‘The government must not throw away Britain’s
long-established role as champion of the rule of law and human rights worldwide.
The government’s retreat in the opposite direction is paradoxical. It betrays a
proud tradition. It is inward-looking and isolationist.’
