A report by the centre-right think tank Policy Exchange has shown that European judges had overruled British law on on 26 occasions since Labour passed the Human Rights Act a decade ago.
Policy Exchange say there is ‘strong evidence’ that withdrawing from the Strasbourg court’s jurisdiction would not affect Britain’s membership of the EU and that Britain should press for major reform of the Strasbourg court to rein it in. If negotiations are unsuccessful then the UK should withdraw from Strasbourg.
The report’s findings are backed by one of Britain’s retired judges, Lord Hoffman, who believes that in recent years ‘human rights have become, like health and safety, a byword for foolish decisions by courts and administrators’.
It seems like a good idea to me to pull out and restore our own justice system. But will the government be brave enough to do it?
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Policy Exchange say there is ‘strong evidence’ that withdrawing from the Strasbourg court’s jurisdiction would not affect Britain’s membership of the EU and that Britain should press for major reform of the Strasbourg court to rein it in. If negotiations are unsuccessful then the UK should withdraw from Strasbourg.
The report’s findings are backed by one of Britain’s retired judges, Lord Hoffman, who believes that in recent years ‘human rights have become, like health and safety, a byword for foolish decisions by courts and administrators’.
It seems like a good idea to me to pull out and restore our own justice system. But will the government be brave enough to do it?
.
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