"The act’s ‘vivid transfer of power’ from Parliament to the courts undermines Britain’s laws, says former Tory leader"
Telegraph: 11th November 2024: Lord Howard joins PopCon and the growing number of politicians and commentators highlighting how Tony Blair's constitutional vandalism has resulted in the devastating undermining of democracy here in the UK
"The Human Rights Act must be reformed to stop it subverting the will of Parliament, Lord Howard said.
The former home secretary and leader of the Tory party said the act, introduced by Sir Tony Blair, had led to a “vivid transfer of power” from Parliament to the courts and a “change in judicial culture”, which undermined Britain’s laws.
His comments come in a foreword to a report published on Monday by the centre-Right think tank Policy Exchange, which lists 25 legal cases that have undermined victims’ rights and prevented the Government from protecting members of the public...
...The Policy Exchange report also cited cases that had weakened the UK’s asylum system including one where the Supreme Court blocked the deportation of a violent criminal to his home country of Zimbabwe on the grounds that it had an inadequate health service to treat his HIV infection...
...Lord Howard, KC, a barrister, said: “In striking fashion, the paper illustrates the many shortcomings of human rights law, making vivid the transfer of power from Parliament to the courts that the Act has helped bring about – and the resulting, negative, change in judicial culture that has taken place in consequence.
“The uncertainty and imprecision that the cases reveal, not to mention the unstable meaning of the Act itself, also brings home the extent to which human rights law undermines the rule of law..."