Constitutional bombshells do not come along very often, most change is incremental and piecemeal – or at least that was the conventional wisdom that prevailed on the UK constitution for many decades. More recently, it appears that scarcely a month passes without suggestions, discussions, proposals, or enactments of far-reaching constitutional reforms – whether through government consultations, changes to the ministerial code, the political and legal constitution and devolution, or bills specifically introduced into Parliament to break international law.
The latest constitutional reform concerns theHuman Rights Act 1998(HRA), or rather, its wholesale abolition and replacement through a Bill of Rights (BoR). Mark Elliott – widely known as the fastest gun in constitutional law – has provided anexcellent and detailed analysisof the Bill’s provisions, available in a1,000 word versionfor those in a hurry.
While the Bill is framed in some circles as the mere…
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