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> efforts to entrench human rights legislation which have simply no precedent in UK constitutional history at all... How so? UK was instrumental in creating th
by ClumsyPilot 2y ago
> efforts to entrench human rights legislation which have simply no precedent in UK constitutional history at all...
How so? UK was instrumental in creating the European Court of Human rights? Surely they did not believe at the time that they are just creating it for everyone else?
- lmm 2y agoThe people who created the ECHR were very conscious that they were doing something unprecedented, that would change European jurisprudence dramatically. Indeed that was something they trumpeted.