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UK: HUMAN RIGHTS: The Conservative's proposals for changing Brtiain's Human Rights laws

04 October 2014

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See the full text: The Conservative's proposals for changing Brtiain's Human Rights laws (pdf)

See also:

• The Worst of all Possible Worlds: the Conservative party’s human rights proposals (EU law Analysis, link) by Steve Peers: "The Conservative proposal suggests instead the worst of all worlds: a highly limited national system of human rights protection, the defenestration of the link with the international human system, and a significant lowering of substantive human rights protection. While the UK has a proud tradition supporting the protection of human rights internationally, this plan would undermine that history, and could well be used as a model by tyrants worldwide."

• Tory plans for European human rights convention will take UK back 50 years - Depriving people of their rights would seem something of an overreaction to one or two adverse European court rulings (The Guardian, link)

• Euro Rights Blog: UK’s dirty laundry still spinning at Strasbourg (link)

• Marked-up copy of the document with comments by Carl Gardner, a barrister (link)

• Roadkill: the EU Charter of Rights after the Conservative party’s changes to UK human rights law (EU Law Analysis, link)

• Tory wreckers out to destroy their own human rights - The Conservatives’ threat to scrap the Human Rights Act emphasises how extreme the party has become (The Observer, link)

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