Thread by @DimitriosGian

Thanks @JoshuaRozenberg for sharing.Others already commented on Sir Peter Goss's views on the futility/counter-intuitiveness of Raab's BoR, and lack of evidence basis (which followed on not listening to expert evidence).I want to focus on Sir Peter's points on judicial dialogue🧵

https://twitter.com/JoshuaRozenberg/status/1590947912443650048

2. His Review Panel (IHRAR) "was struck by the high regard in which the UK Courts and Judiciary are held by the ECtHR and the beneficial influence this has, both domestically and for the ECtHR".

3. The ECtHR has welcomed the “mature equilibrium” reached with UK Courts, which "neither means nor requires that UK Courts and the Strasbourg Court always agree", and which entails "mutual respect bringing mutual benefit".
Not quite @DailyMailUK's narrative, one would argue.

4. The relationship between UK Courts and the Strasbourg Court "is, and is intended to be, interactive and dynamic". "Dialogue is key to achieving this objective", it "has borne fruit" and "should continue to develop organically", adds Sir Peter.

5. Sir Peter's Review "placed great store on strengthening and preserving that dialogue".

But @DominicRaab did not/will not listen...

6. The ECtHR has "a gratifying receptiveness to UK judicial thinking".
@DominicRaab @DailyMailUK

7. Sir Peter Goss: The relationship between UK courts and Strasbourg "is a UK asset, under-valued domestically".
#ECHR @coe @DominicRaab

8. Sir Peter Goss: The relationship between UK courts and Strasbourg "should be widely and better appreciated domestically".
In other words, MoJ please stop undermining this relationship and start promoting the invaluable contribution of the European Court of Human Rights.

9. Sir Peter Goss: "It should go without saying that a relationship of this nature is too valuable to be discarded simply because of dissatisfaction with an unfortunate individual rule 39 interim decision".
@MoJGovUK @DominicRaab

10. Sir Peter's comments on dialogue are entirely in line with opinion and evidence provided by @UKSupremeCourt Justices on several occasions, including Lady Hale, on this matter. They've all stressed the harmonic relationship with Strasbourg.

11. Judicial dialogue, betw domestic and int'l courts - open, informed, transparent, between equal partners - is the hallmark of a legal cosmopolitanism apt for liberal democracies (faced with the immense contemporary challenge of populism and polarisation amongst other evils).

12. For this judicial dialogue to continue to be "organic", productive, and beneficial to all parties, as Sir Peter Goss imagines it here, there is a fundamental condition, that he touches upon, even if indirectly...

13. ...this dialogue needs to emerge in a climate of "mutual respect bringing mutual benefit", and the UK Govt has done everything within its powers, for over 10 years now, to ensure that this is not the case...

14. by maligning the Court, making it a central part of its Eurosceptic, anti-European, toxic-Brexiteer narrative, that has indeed given us Brexit, and that may ultimately give us a British Bill of Rights too, and push the UK further and further away from the @coe.#ECHR @NewsEchr

15. There is another way. A proper civic understanding of 'what the ECHR has ever done for the UK', how UK courts work harmonically with it, how we all stand to benefit from a relationship of mutual respect and cooperation, where our domestic Courts use human rights as a compass

16. Sir Peter Goss on the ECHR and judicial dialogue.
@JoshuaRozenberg @conorgearty @AileenFKavanagh @UKHRights @EdBatesECHR @fredacowell @colmocinneide @DrKirstyHughes @_lesliethomas @gardencourtlaw @GreshamCollege @BritishAcademy_ @BinghamSchools @BinghamCentre @Kirsty_Brimelow