The Government explains its Proposals in its Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill Of Rights: A consultation to reform the Human Rights Act 1998 (CP 588), which represent a radical departure from the HRA. The specific Proposals are developed in the context of broader themes:
- respecting our common law traditions and strengthening the role of the UK Supreme Court;
- restoring a sharper focus on protecting fundamental rights;
- preventing the incremental expansion of rights without proper democratic oversight;
- emphasising the role of responsibilities within the human rights framework; and
- facilitating consideration of and dialogue with Strasbourg, while guaranteeing Parliament its proper role.
The Government’s Proposals are designed to recast the HRA profoundly. They seek to create a framework for human rights which focuses principally on British law rather than ECtHR judgments and propose that the UK courts should give greater weight to the views of Parliament. The most important proposed…
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