A Lawyer Writes

A Lawyer Writes

‘A cure in search of a problem’

Sir Robert Buckland is unimpressed by his successor’s new bill

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Joshua Rozenberg
Jul 01, 2022
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Dominic Raab’s bill of rights bill is “a cure in search of a problem”, his predecessor has told me. In an interview for today’s Law Society Gazette, Sir Robert Buckland said that if he had still been lord chancellor he would not have proposed anything nearly as radical.

Sir Robert Buckland KCB QC MP

Buckland said he had also been “puzzled” by Raab’s decis…

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