No, human rights legislation, or more precisely the British nature of gold plating things, has led to human rights law becoming a source of authority in that it

No, human rights legislation, or more precisely the British nature of gold plating things, has led to human rights law becoming a source of authority in that it frequently compels action from the state. Rather than being a "you can't do that" like many constitutions it is instead become a "you must do that" to the state. It was only very recently that the EU court explicitly said that national courts can look at the intent and not the explicit ruling when using their judgements on other countries. All too often previously the UK has directly implemented rulings that were addressing concerns in countries that didn't have other safeguards that the UK had.