The product of fear, not hope

Ed Fitzgerald KC passes judgment on Raab’s Bill of Rights Bill

Dominic Raab’s Bill of Rights Bill is defined wholly by its negativity, the veteran human rights lawyers Edward Fitzgerald CBE KC said in a lecture last week.

The bill, he added,

is intended to limit rights, to deny their universality, to restrict the development of convention rights, and to restrict the development of human rights principles by the UK c…