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UK blocks human rights court reforms

01 May 1993

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The UK government, together with Ireland, Italy and Denmark, has vetoed proposed reforms to the structure and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg designed to speed up court cases. The proposals, agreed by the majority of signatory states to the European Convention on Human Rights, would have replaced the part-time court, holding hearings on which 40 judges sit, by a permanent court with fewer judges sitting. Without some such reform the waiting time for cases to reach the court, already five years, is likely to double in the next few years under the pressure of its increased workload. With 50 adverse rulings, Britain is the court's most persistent offender.

Observer 16.5.93.

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