THIS week’s Queen’s Speech will include legislation proposing the scrapping of the Human Rights Act.
It must be stressed that this is not an attack upon human rights. It is a criticism of how they are currently applied in this country and how judges at home and abroad have chosen to interpret the law.
So long as the proposed replacement Bill of Rights is sufficiently robust in its defence of the individual then it will do the job of the present Act, but do so in a manner that doesn’t subvert British democracy or sovereignty.
Fundamentally it comes down to who has the final say.
I believe it should be the UK’s courts and elected representatives and they should be guided by very clear and unambiguous rules.
DW Lacey, Durham.
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