Law Pod UK latest: The 2022 Bill of Rights

9 July 2022 by Rosalind English

With the current turmoil in Westminster, attention to the government’s proposed Bill of Rights Bill has temporarily fallen away. But whatever the leadership contest throws up, the debate still rages: do we repeal and replace the Human Rights Act 1998? Leave it in place, or update it? Dominic Raab’s Bill will probably have to wait a while for its second reading in the Commons; in the mean time, Rosalind English combs through its provisions with Andrew Warnock QC, whose practice at 1 Chancery Chambers involves many cases involving claims based on the European Convention of Human Rights and the 1998 Act. Listen to Episode 167 for an in-depth survey of the new Bill’s proposals.

Here are the citations for the cases referred to in the interview:

R (On the application of Elan-Cane) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 56

Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [2018]  UKSC 4

Ghadian v Godin-Mendoza [2004] UKHL 30

R (on the application of Al-Skeini) v Secretary of State for Defence [2007] UKHL 26

Secretary of State for the Home Department v F [2009] UKHL 28

Al-Skeini v United Kingdom  (2011) 53 E.H.R.R. 18

Anufrijeva v London Borough of Southwark [2003] EWCA Civ 1406

Osman v United Kingdom (2000) 29 E.H.R.R. 245

DPP v Ziegler [2021] UKSC 23

On Tuesday 19th July 1 Crown office Row will be holding a webinar on A New Bill of Rights? The Bill of Rights Bill Explained. The speakers will be familiar to Law Pod UK listeners:  Alasdair Henderson, Jim Duffy and  Darragh Coffey  Rajkiran Barhey will chair the discussion. We will be following the webinar with a podcast episode on the subject.

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