Our rights need better judges in their defence
"Lord Hoffmann, a law lord not unknown to controversy, has marked his imminent retirement from our highest court with a powerful diatribe against the European court of human rights (ECHR), the ultimate guardian of our rights and liberties. He accuses it of an ambition to impose on Europe a federal law on human rights, involving a loss of national sovereignty, something which was not envisaged when the UK signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights more than 50 years ago".
For those idiots over at conservativehome who are calling for us to pull out of the ECHR and scrap the Human Rights Act...
"The European Convention and the court are inextricably linked. You cannot reject one without the other. And a state that is a member of the EU cannot rid itself of the convention and still remain in the union, because it is a condition of EU membership that states sign up to the convention".
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
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Federal law? Gordon Braunschweiger and Jackkcqui smiff are doing a pretty good job of that themselves.
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