Tim Shipman, Political Editor
PLANS to end the abuse of human rights laws and stamp out the courtroom
compensation culture can be revealed today, after a draft of the government’s
blueprint to replace the Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights was
leaked to The Sunday Times.
In the most radical shake-up of human rights law in two decades, judges
will be told they will not have to follow rulings of the European Court of
Human Rights in Strasbourg slavishly.
Instead they would be able to rely on the common law — the body of
judicial rulings built up in Britain over centuries — or rulings by courts in
other Commonwealth countries such as Australia and Canada, when making their
judgments.
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