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Just to be clear, I wasn't advocating the loss of the ECHR/HRA benefits, merely that anything currently protected by the Charter and EUCJ should be established
by Silhouette 9y ago
Just to be clear, I wasn't advocating the loss of the ECHR/HRA benefits, merely that anything currently protected by the Charter and EUCJ should be established in primary legislation here as well, so that post-Brexit our own courts can take it into account directly.
My personal view is that parliamentary sovereignty is a dubious principle at best in this sort of situation, and that we are long overdue for constitutional reform such that the protection of fundamental rights is enshrined in a higher law and interpreted by a higher court over which even the government of the day does not have supremacy. Unfortunately, rather like reform of our blatantly broken electoral system, there seems little prospect of that any time soon, and so trying to protect those rights and freedoms as well as we practically can under our existing system may be the best we can do for now.