‘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.
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