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Related: About this forumEuropean court is not superior to UK supreme court, says Lord Judge.
The law should be changed to make it clear that British courts are not obliged to implement judgments of the European court of human rights (ECHR), according to the former lord chief justice.
Declaring that Strasbourg "is not superior to our supreme court" in London, Lord Judge, who retired in October, said parliamentary sovereignty should not be exported to "a foreign court".
He is the third senior judicial figure in recent weeks to warn about the dangers of an emerging "democratic deficit" if the ECHR continues to evolve into in effect a law-making body and forces the UK government to give prisoners the vote against parliament's expressed will.
Last week Lord Justice Laws, the longest-serving court of appeal judge, called on UK courts to stop deferring to Strasbourg on every issue. The week before, the supreme court justice Lord Sumption criticised the ECHR for exceeding its legitimate powers, and undermining the democratic process.
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/dec/04/european-court-uk-supreme-lord-judge
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Just an odd coincidence.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)I used to know a Doctor Doktor.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Justice Thumbs.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)In that context, two well-known early 20th century neurologists were called Head and Brain. There is a textbook on animal behaviour by Fox and Tiger, and one on educational psychology by Child. A more unfortunate name was that of the archbishop called Cardinal Sin.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)one of the lecturers being named Cheetham. Professionally, much to our amusement, he was in partnership with a guy named Bolt.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)there is the Warwickshire law firm, 'Wright Hassall' (try reading it aloud!)
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)was republished in Private Eye early sixties. It was a clip of a from a local newspaper in Hampstead announcing the wedding of
Clap - Hands. Whether or not Miss Clap's parents ever saw the humour in this I'll never know.
Wright Hassall
Anarcho-Socialist
(9,601 posts)Given that Britain is obliged by treaty to defer to the ECHR, by membership of the Council of Europe (and signing the Convention on Human Rights).