AMERE SIX MONTHS AGO, almost the entirety of Britain’s legal commentariat welcomed with glee the death of Dominic Raab’s ill-starred British Bill of Rights which, despite its lofty short title, was essentially a tweaked version of the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporated the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights into United Kingdom law.
What few of Lord Chancellor Raab’s critics appreciated was the fact that, had his Bill of Rights been enacted, British membership of the European Convention would have become far more difficult to challenge politically. The excesses of the ECHR/HRA regime could always be blamed on New Labour; but with the Bill of Rights the Tories would have effectively assumed political co-ownership of the ECHR.
Now, with Raab’s political demise, British withdrawal is once again…
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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2023