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NLJ this week: Who is driving the assault on our human rights?

02 December 2022
Issue: 8005 / Categories: Legal News , Human rights , EU
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‘Depicting the ECHR and HRA 1998 as alien intrusions undermining British sovereignty is historically illiterate,’ Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC writes in this week’s NLJ. Bindman asks: ‘What is behind this assault on the judiciary, the ECHR and HRA 1998?’

He highlights the influence of thinktanks on a government that is displaying undemocratic and authoritarian tendencies. Current justice Secretary Dominic Raab’s antipathy to the Human Rights Act and European Convention on Human Rights is well-documented, and the influence of the thinktank Policy Exchange can be traced in his speeches.

Bindman reminds us that the ECHR came out of a largely British initiative spearheaded by Winston Churchill and embodies principles arising in Britain such as the magna carta.

Read Sir Geoffrey's article in full here
Issue: 8005 / Categories: Legal News , Human rights , EU
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