Ressel, J. (2015) Good news! The Strasburg Court does not overrule UK laws after all. Law, Culture & Ideas Blog. 01/02/2015
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The article argues that the Conservative party proposals to withdraw UK from the European Convention on Human Rights is not just legally illiterate but unsupported by empirical evidence that UK laws are regularly 'overturned' by decisions in the European Court of Human Rights.
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1 February 2015
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References:
1] European Court of Human Rights, Annual Report 2014 (Available at http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Annual_Report_2014_ENG.pdf )
[2] J Ressel ‘Human rights, the law, common sense and the question of freedom.’ Law, Cult. & Ideas Blog (8 October 2014) (Available at https://lawcultureblog.wordpress.com/ )
[3] See for instance the BBC Radio interview with Dominic Grieve, the former Attorney General, recorded on 3 October 2014. (Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29472750 )
[4] See Liberty ‘Legally Illiterate’ (Available at https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news/latest-news/legally-illiterate )
[5] Available at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/pages/search.aspx?i=001-122664#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-122664%22]}
[6] Article 3 of ECHR prohibits torture, or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment without reservation. (Available at http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf )
[7] Protecting Human Rights in UK (Available at http://www.theguardian.com/politics/interactive/2014/oct/03/conservatives-human-rights-act-full-document )
[8] A. Young, ‘HRA Howlers: The Conservative Party and Reform of the Human Rights Act 1998’ U.K. Const. L. Blog (7th October 2014) (Available at http://ukconstitutionallaw.org )
[9] Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, 29 January 2015 ‘UK broke law in fewer than 1% of European human rights cases in 2014’ at http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jan/29/uk-broke-law-european-human-rights-cases-2014
[10] The Guardian, 29 January 2015 – Guardian Graphic at: http://static.guim.co.uk/ni/1422560354198/ECHR_violation_judgement.svg
[11] President Dean Spielmann, Press Conference Speech, Strasbourg, 29 January 2015 (Available at http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Speech_20150129_Press_Conference_2015_ENG.pdf )
[12] The Guardian, 29 January 2015 – Guardian Graphic at: http://static.guim.co.uk/ni/1422560354118/ECHR_pending_judicial_revie.svg
[13] Gunther Teubner ‘Self-Subversive Justice: Contingency or Transcendence Formula of Law?’ The Modern Law Review 2009 Vol 72, No 1, pp 1-23
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