Human Rights Act and Bingham’s Question: which rights are we to discard?
So the Human Rights Act and the European Court of Human Rights are in the news. One Tory Minister wants to repeal the Act, and another wants us to withdraw from the Court. The extent to which either...
View ArticleA new Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor
10th May 2015 Rt Hon Michael Gove MP becomes Lord Chancellor, and Secretary of State for Justice @MoJGovUK #Ministers2015 pic.twitter.com/Pfss5bIIa2 — UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) May 10, 2015...
View ArticleRound-up: three pieces to read on the appointment of the new Justice Secretary
11th May 2015 These three pieces on the new Lord Chancellor are worth reading: Gove’s intelligence will make him a very different justice secretary to Grayling by Andrew Neilson Why human rights reform...
View ArticleRound-up: five posts on the constitutional problems with Human Rights Act repeal
11th May 2015 From before the general election: Human Rights, Devolution and the Constrained Authority of the Westminster Parliament by Colm O’Cinneide Will devolution scupper Conservative plans for a...
View ArticleThe hurdles for Human Rights Act repeal now seem higher than before
25th May 2015 The new Conservative government’s plan to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and enact a replacement, apparently within one hundred days of the general election, was never going to be...
View ArticleThe “Bill of Rights” and a blank sheet of paper.
4th October 2015 There appears to be further slippage in the Tory proposals for repealing the Human Rights Act. Look at the following three quotes (with an emphasis added to each one): “The scrapping...
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Estragon’s boot: the Conservatives delay the repeal of the Human Rights Act
27th February 2016 * Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to repeal the Human Rights Act. He pulls at it with both hands. He gives up, rests, tries again. * According to a news report today, the...
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