“Legal reforms should not weaken human rights protections in the United Kingdom”, warned the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, on Monday 4 July.
At issue is the proposed repeal and replacement of the ‘Human Rights Act’ with a ‘Bill of Rights’ which, if passed, would change the way in which citizens can bring cases before the UK courts and enforce their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), widening the gap between the...