Call to scrap plans to rewrite human rights law
The Bill of Rights aims to reassert the primacy of UK courts in human rights cases
The government says the bill is designed to "help prevent trivial human rights claims from wasting judges' time" and to make it clear UK courts do not always need to follow the decisions of European courts.But in a new report, the cross-party committee argues the bill is likely to reduce the protections currently provided by the Human Rights Act.
The committee said the bill also "risks dangerous uncertainty by abandoning decades of important case law". She added: "We have called on the government to reconsider the vast majority of the clauses of the bill.
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