“The mood in Strasbourg is optimistic that worthwhile reforms to the European court of human rights can be achieved, following Cameron’s speech.”
The Guardian, 26th January 2012
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“Senior Council of Europe official tells Guardian that UK’s proposals for court reform could weaken ECtHR.”
The Guardian, 25th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Cameron’s speech on the European court of human rights in full
The Guardian, 25th January 2012
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“The prime minister goes to Strasbourg today arguing for reforms to the ECtHR claiming that it is ‘swamped’ by cases, becoming a ‘small claims court’ and needs urgent reform. Is he right?”
The Guardian, 25th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“David Cameron is to warn that the European court of human rights is in danger of turning into a ‘small claims court’ that fails to deal with serious violations of human rights, unless it embarks on reforms.”
The Guardian, 25th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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“The expansion of secret hearings into the civil courts, proposed by the government as a means of protecting national security, will deprive individuals of the right to a fair trial, a parliamentary select committee has been warned.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Judging by the media fury stoked up over the case of the Islamic cleric Abu Qatada and the ‘meddling’ judges of Strasbourg, the United Kingdom’s departure from the European court of human rights (ECHR) might appear imminent.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Marie-Bénédicte Dembour calls them ‘forgotten cases’. As Adam Wagner demonstrated in a blog post of last week, Eurosceptic newspapers have a particular interest in overlooking the European Court of Human Right’s decisions of inadmissibility, seeking to buttress claims that the Court is wildly interventionist, imposing alien ‘European’ logics on Britain with gleeful abandon.”
UK Human Rights Blog,
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A foreign drug-dealing bigamist has won the right to stay in Britain because of his human right to ‘family life’.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The European Court of Human Rights has found that there would be no breach of Article 3 ECHR (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) in extraditing two men accused of murder to the US.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th January 2012
Source: http://ukhumanrightsblog.com
“On 17 January 2012 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down its judgment in Othman (Abu Qatada) v UK. In a unanimous ruling the Court held that the UK could not lawfully deport Abu Qatada to his native Jordan, overturning the House of Lords (who had unanimously come to the opposite conclusion in RB (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] UKHL 10, [2010] 2 AC 110).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th January 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“It seems appropriate, on the day when Wikipedia shut down for 24 hours to protest against US anti-piracy legislation, to talk about piracy (in the copyright sense) and what role human rights law has to play in the perpetual battle against it.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th January 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Strasbourg Court has ruled today that whilst diplomatic assurances may protect a suspected terrorist from torture, he cannot be deported to Jordan while there remains a real risk that evidence obtained by torture will be used against him.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th January 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Although Abu Qatada has persuaded the European Court of Human Rights that he would not get a fair trial if he is sent back to Jordan, the ruling is not as serious a defeat for the British government as it might have been.”
The Guardian, 17th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Strasbourg Court has found three British murderers’ imprisonment for life is not inhuman or degrading and therefore not in violation of Article 3.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th January 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The European court of human rights has blocked the deportation to Jordan of Abu Qatada – who been called Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe – because he risks facing a trial based on torture-tainted evidence.”
The Guardian, 17th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s most dangerous criminals can be kept behind bars for the rest of their lives, judges at the European Court of Human Rights have ruled.”
BBC News, 17th January 2012
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“A leading barrister has called for the UK to become more sharia-literate, while arguing that Islamic law can be compatible with the toughest human rights legislation.”
The Guardian, 16th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It is rightly said that 95% of statistics are made up. Today’s (12 January) Daily Mail front page headline contained a typically exuberant statistical claim: Europe’s war on British justice: UK loses three out of four human rights cases, damning report reveals. According to journalist James Slack ‘Unelected Euro judges’ are mounting a ‘relentless attack on British laws laid down over centuries by Parliament’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 12th January 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Britain has lost three out of four cases taken to the European Court of Human Rights, new figures have shown.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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