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Adam Wagner
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Tonight! Just looked and there are 4 spaces remaining! I’m talking about public attitudes to human rights.... here’s a sneak peak:
Important to remember that however much outrage you might see on twitter (in your echo chamber!) about replacing the Human Rights Act or over ECHR skepticism, these are relatively popular ideas amongst the wider population
That’s one of the reasons the Tories have kept their HRA repeal policy going for so long - it’s popular amongst right wingers and some closer to the centre
I’ll be digging into the empirical research which has been done in the past 10 years on public attitudes towards human rights (not that encouraging...) and suggesting some ways of improving things
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Sounds like Martin Lewis got a brilliant result here - ‘dropped’ doesn’t cover it
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Adam Wagner
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1/ BIG JUDGMENT!
European Court of Human Rights rediscovers its mojo and disagrees with UK Supreme Court over police retaining records of "domestic extremists" indefinitely. Case of 94-year-old John Catt hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-1894…
2/ This is an important judgment and will lead to the UK police having to think again about the systems they use to retain information about protesters. The judgment is detailed and well-reasoned - not just rehearsing of other judgments (as you sometimes see in the ECtHR)
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Adam Wagner
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1/ Very interesting!
2/ This is a claim by Sir Philip Green in part relating to the disclosure by Lord Hain in Parliament of his identity relating to sexual misconduct allegations.
3/ Article 9 of the 1689 Bill of Rights protects Parliamentarians from being sued for anything relating to proceedings in Parliament. It's pretty sacrosanct but will be reviewed in this case. This judgment is just a pre-trial skirmish, full issues to be determined from 4 Feb
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