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Raab lays out plans to reform legislation to stop EU rights court from 'dictating' to UK

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said the ECHR was imposing too many “obligations on the state”.

BRITAIN’S JUSTICE MINISTER has laid out his plans to reform key rights legislation to stop the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) from “dictating” to the UK.

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph that the ECHR was imposing too many “obligations on the state”.

The UK Human Rights Act passed in 1998 incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. This was not directly impacted by Brexit as neither the Convention nor the court are part of the EU.

The minister, himself a lawyer, said he is formulating a mechanism to allow the government to introduce ad hoc legislation to “correct” ECHR judgements when British ministers believe they are “incorrect”.

Raab, who served as foreign minister until a September reshuffle, announced an overhaul of the UK rights act at the Conservative Party conference this month, calling it “nonsensical”.

He said at the time that the reforms could be achieved without the UK pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Raab cited cases to The Sunday Telegraph where foreign criminals have avoided deportation by citing their right to family life under the rights act.

He also listed obligations imposed by the ECHR on military operations overseas and complained that under the current rights act, judges are required to take into account ECHR decisions when considering cases involving institutions such as the NHS state-funded health service.

“I don’t think it’s the job of the European Court … to be dictating things to, whether it’s the NHS, whether it’s our welfare provision, or whether it’s our police forces,” Raab said.

He said he expected his planned reforms to be submitted for consultation in the next two months.

© – AFP, 2021

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    Mar 16th 2025, 10:50 PM

    he’s still not really good at football though

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    Mar 16th 2025, 11:21 PM

    @John Duggan: You must have played in the World Cup given your vast experience.

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    Mar 17th 2025, 12:02 AM

    @John Duggan: you’re not very good at writing in English either. Not really good at football . Sweet jesus .

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    Mar 17th 2025, 12:44 AM

    @John Killeen: He’s right…

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    Mar 17th 2025, 12:46 AM

    @Oweke 68: taking it a bit to heart aren’t you…Hojlund a friend of yours!?

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    Mar 17th 2025, 6:44 AM

    @damien leen: ha! Because Liverpool fans never lose their collective sh!t on here when someone dares criticise their team or players!

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    Mar 17th 2025, 1:49 PM

    @John Duggan: A pro not good at football?….Nice 1 john

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    Mar 17th 2025, 4:38 PM

    @John Killeen: ah John do you need a hug ?
    You should be well used to your favourite club lashing out multiple of millions now on complete duds !

    But fear not Mr Ratcliffe sacking of the tea lady is bound to be the turning point to kickstart the 90′s glory once again

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    Good end to a good week for united, hasn’t been too many of them this season. Big improvement in performance the last few games. Shame about heaven, let’s hope it’s not as bad as it looked.

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    Mar 17th 2025, 5:55 AM

    @J B: shouldn’t you be off making jokes about people dying you melt?

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    Mar 17th 2025, 2:39 AM

    He does have talent but has been dropped in as the main goal scoring hope in a dysfunctional club/team at a very young age. Hopefully getting on the score sheet will give him some confidence back and he can score a lot more. They do need another striker to act as yhe main goal scorer though.

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    Pity they don’t play teams like Leicester every week

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    3* Promoted Championship teams to be relegated for the second year in a row and seeing the standard in this year’s championship it’s going to be 3 in a row

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    Leicester muck nothing to see here

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    Mar 17th 2025, 7:01 AM

    @J B: half or hand????

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    They bet the second worst team in the league ha ha

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    Mar 17th 2025, 11:55 AM

    @John Kenny: so who do you follow in the English league?

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    @Stephen Foster: Cornwall

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    Mar 17th 2025, 5:28 PM

    “One step never climbed a mountain”… he needs to be consistent and to go out and do that again and again. 72M is nowhere near justified yet!!

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