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ECHR: UK vs the rest (1)

01 January 1991

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ECHR: UK vs the rest
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After a closed meeting in Strasbourg at the end of January,
evidence emerged that UK is obstructing projected reforms which
are needed to prevent the European Court of Human Rights from
collapsing through overload and inefficiency. A report in the
Observer claimed that ministers led by Home Secretary Michael
Howard are reneging on agreements made last year to streamline
the procedures whereby cases are currently scrutinised by up to
three bodies - the Commission, the Committee of Ministers and the
European Court on Human Rights. The plans involve replacing this
cumbersome system by a single tier system, which would enable
cases to be dealt with in under two years, instead of five or
more at present.
It was also claimed that, alone of the 32 signatory states of
the Human Rights Convention, the UK registered that it might
object to an automatic, permanent right for individuals to
complain about their governments' behaviour when the treaty
establishing the ECHR is revised. Currently, the right of
individual petition is renewed every few years, with the UK
government due to renew individual petitioning rights in 1996.
Observer 6.2.94.

Statewatch Vol 4 no 2, March-April 1994

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