Russian oligarchs using human rights laws to fight sanctions
The flurry of announcements comes after mounting political pressure from Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, and the other MPs about why the UK has not sanctioned…
Dominic Raab: I’ll stop dangerous criminals abusing Human Rights Act ‘to line their pockets’
Dominic Raab has pledged to stop dangerous offenders from “lining their pockets” with taxpayers’ funds after a gangland killer was handed £15,000 compensation for being locked up…
Like it or not, we are all still living in the shadow of Sir Tony Blair
Tony Blair was, in David Cameron’s famous line, “the future once”. Yet for a man written off as a relic more than 16 years ago, Labour’s last…
Even under Dominic Raab’s ‘British Bill of Rights’, Strasbourg reigns supreme
Three months is a long time in politics. Until September, it looked as if Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland would be responsible for leading the first overhaul of…
Britain doesn’t need a foreign court to uphold its ancient liberties
You’ve got to give ministers top marks for irony for opening a debate about freedom just as our personal liberties are being curtailed. In a foreword to…
Dominic Raab’s Human Rights Act overhaul could remove restrictions on police and armed forces
Police work and military operations could face fewer restrictions under plans to remove the legal obligation on judges to “take into account” European human rights rulings. An…
EU-style privacy laws could be scrapped after Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s legal win
She had successfully sued the publisher of the Mail on Sunday for a breach of her privacy, data protection and copyright after it printed extracts from a…
Meghan’s win brings us perilously close to ‘rule by judges’
The Mail on Sunday inspires such hatred among some on the liberal-left that Meghan’s victory over the newspaper in the Court of Appeal was bound to interpreted…
Scrap the Human Rights Act or more people will die in the Channel, warn Tory MPs
Tory MPs have called for a radical overhaul of the Human Rights Act as Whitehall insiders admitted Priti Patel’s plan to turn back boats carrying migrants would…