Bill of Rights Bill - further material

The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) has published a considerable analysis of the government's Bill of Rights Bill - 

Rights Removal Bill & Human Rights Act Reform (bihr.org.uk) and also 

Rights Removal Bill: Need to Know (bihr.org.uk)

Here, in one place, is all of the BIHR's work around what the Institute has chosen to call the "Rights Removal Bill."  Their point is that the Bill of Rights Bill will repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and it represents government plans to reduce the their responsibilities to uphold those human rights protections people rely on every day across the UK.

In a speech in Northern Ireland, Lady Hale (the former President of the Supreme Court) gave a lecture waring of the dangers of the Bill of Rights Bill -  Lady Hale warns of ‘dangers’ of British Bill of Rights in Belfast speech | Irish Legal News

The retired judge was invited to give the keynote address at the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission’s (NIHRC) annual human rights lecture, hosted in partnership with the Bar of Northern Ireland. The event in the Royal Courts of Justice, opened by the Lady Chief Justice, Dame Siobhan Keegan, saw Lady Hale speak on the topic: “Do we really need a British Bill of Rights?” 

She told attendees: “With the publication of its Bill of Rights Bill, the UK Government is trying to reduce the protection given to human rights in UK law and we must all be alive to the risks and dangers this poses.”

House of Commons - Justice Committee - 5 July 2022:

Session on the Bill of Rights Bill with witnesses Professor Mark Elliott, Professor Gavin Phillipson, Professor Guglielmo Verdirame QC. Parliamentlive.tv - Justice Committee

Other material related to the Bill:

Law and Lawyers: Reaction to the proposed Bill of Rights (obiterj.blogspot.com) - with a considerable number of links to various articles, blogposts, commentaries

Three posts commencing at Law and Lawyers: Human Rights protection in the UK ~ the proposed Bill of Rights - No. 1 (obiterj.blogspot.com)

The government's consultation - 4 posts commencing at Law and Lawyers: The Government's consultation on Human Rights Act ~ (1) (obiterj.blogspot.com)

The Indpendent Review Report - 5 posts commencing at Law and Lawyers: Independent Review of the Human Rights Act 1998 ~ Post 1 (obiterj.blogspot.com)

Explainers – Constitutional Law Matters - where there are several posts relating to the Bill of Rights Bill

UK Human Rights Blog - Podcast - "Rosalind English combs through its provisions with Andrew Warnock QC, whose practice at 1 Chancery Chambers involves many cases involving claims based on the European Convention of Human Rights and the 1998 Act" -  Law Pod UK latest: The 2022 Bill of Rights - UK Human Rights Blog

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has issued a call for evidence on the Bill of Rights Bill. 

Inforrm’s blog:

• Liberty and Human Rights. Part One: The Atavistic Press
• Liberty and Human Rights. Part Two: Dominic Raab and Magna Carta
• Liberty and Human Rights. Part Three: Dominic Raab and the Bill of Rights 1689
• Liberty and Human Rights, Part Four: Parliamentary Sovereignty and the ‘Elective Dictatorship’

The UK’s new “Bill of Rights” and the implementation of ECtHR judgments - Strasbourg Observers

2nd August 2022 - Why the proposed ‘Modern’ Bill of Rights is contradictory constitutionalism - The Constitution Society (consoc.org.uk)

13 August 2022 - Deportation and Clause 8 of the Bill of Rights  – Constitutional Law Matters

5 July 2022

Update 7 October 2022:

Thinktank puts ECHR withdrawal back on Tory agenda | News | Law Gazette

Update 25 January 2023:

Legislative Scrutiny: Bill of Rights Bill (parliament.uk)

Update 28 March 2023:

Joshua Rozenberg drew attention to a speech by Sir Nicholas Bratza - (a former President of the European Court of Human Rights) - Raab’s bill attacked again - by Joshua Rozenberg (substack.com)