NLJ this week: Leaving the Convention?

The government sparked controversy this week by announcing a review of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Quick off the mark, barrister Alec Samuels makes the case in NLJ this week for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (something the government has said it has no intention of doing―the review panel will look at the application of the rights in domestic law).

Samuels casts a critical eye over the current framework of rights, and suggests that ‘in many situations the apparent protections may in fact even be illusory’.

Issue: 7914 / Categories: Legal News , EU , Human rights , Brexit

European Convention on Human Rights: Better out than in?

NLJ this week: Leaving the Convention?

The government sparked controversy this week by announcing a review of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Samuels casts a critical eye over the current framework of rights, and suggests that ‘in many situations the apparent protections may in fact even be illusory’.

Issue: 7914 / Categories: Legal News , EU , Human rights , Brexit

European Convention on Human Rights: Better out than in?

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