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Human rights don’t hinder ministers

Human rights don’t hinder ministers

So says a new academic study of delegated legislation challenged in court

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Joshua Rozenberg
Feb 22, 2021
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There is “scant evidence” that judges are overreaching themselves when they use the Human Rights Act (HRA) to overturn secondary legislation, a new study has found. The report’s authors argue that the independent Human Rights Act review chaired by Sir Peter Gross “should — without clearer evidence and justification — be extremely wary of any claim that …

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