The Bill also sets up future battles with the European Court of Human Rights. The Government yesterday published the text of a new Bill designed to replace the Human Rights Act (1998) which enshrines the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in UK law. Lawyer Adam Wagner said the bill was “a full scale attack on people’s ability to claim their human rights in the UK. He wrote a troll-y column for the Daily Mail, saying that “Human rights do not exist. This bill doesn’t take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights, just subordinates it to UK courts.

Source: The Guardian June 23, 2022 16:18 UTC