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The House of Lords’ EU Justice Committee today (09 May 2016) published a report on its inquiry into the government’s plans for a British Bill of Rights, warning that there is little justification for the change and that it poses a risk to the British constitution.<br><br>
Expanding for the first time on the government’s plans, the Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove told the Committee that a significant purpose of the Bill will be to reaffirm that human rights “are fundamental British rights”. He explained that the ECHR is seen by some as a “foreign intervention”.<br><br>
“His evidence left us unsure why a British Bill of Rights was really necessary,” the Committee stated.<br><br>
Furthermore, the report warned that devolved administrations are specifically opposed to the scrapping of the Human Rights Act - which the British Bill of Rights would replace - and that the government could be forced to impose the Bill on them without their consent. This, they warned could mean “unravelling the constitutional knitting for very little”.</p>
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<p class="auto-style5"><b>Jo Seery</b> <i>Thompsons Solicitors</i><br>
<b>Robert Knox</b> <i>University of Liverpool</i><br>
<b>Professor Keith Ewing</b> <i>IER and King's College London</i><br>
<b>Hannah Reed</b> <i>TUC</i><br>
<b>Paul Draycott</b> <i>Doughty Street Chambers</i><br>
<b>David Whyte & Stefanie Khoury</b> <i>University of Liverpool</i></p></td>
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