By Monidipa Fouzder2021-03-04T16:39:00+00:00
A cross-party group of MPs and peers has told the Independent Human Rights Act Review that there is no case for reform as it closes its call for evidence.
Publishing its response to the review’s call, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said the act strikes a careful balance, respecting the UK’s constitutional arrangements and upholding the rule of law. ‘Even relatively minor, technical changes risk upsetting this balance. Moreover, despite these previous attempts at reform, no case for reform has been established’, the committee says in its letter to Sir Peter Gross, who is leading the
By Michael Cross2021-02-02T11:27:00+00:00
Russia, Turkey and Ukraine accounted for most of the workload of the European Court of Human Rights last year with the UK barely figuring on the court’s radar, according to new figures. In its
latest annual report, the court says that only 0.04 applications concerning the UK were made last year for every 10,000 inhabitants, the lowest figure by head of population of all the Council of Europe’s 47 member states.
UK is subject to the lowest number of judgments in 47-member Council of Europe
Source: Rex
The figure will be seized on to support arguments that the 20-year-old Human Rights Act - the operation of which is currently under a government-sponsored review - is doing its job in enabling rights cases to be settled domestically.
Retired Court of Appeal judge Sir Peter Gross is leading the
promised review of the 20-year-old act, which will report in the summer. The review’s call for evidence was the subject of a Young Legal Aid Lawyers event this week.
Highlighting the importance of public legal education, Bristol Law Centre solicitor Barbara Likulunga told the event that there was a lack of understanding on how much the Human Rights Act affects people on the ground.
‘The law in itself is so complicated, it’s not accessible… When we talk to people, it’s our job to translate it. But when people come through the door and hear the terminology we use, it probably goes over their head,’ she said.
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