Home secretary’s claims of ‘constructive’ talks regarding Strasbourg’s injunctions disputed by legal scholars
Legal experts have cast doubt on the UK’s claims of “possible reforms” toDuring a two-day visit to the country’s capital, Kigali, Suella Braverman told athat she was “encouraged” by the government’s “constructive” talks with Strasbourg to overhaul court injunctions. An ECHR injunction last June prevented an Iraqi national from being deported from the UK to the east African country.
At stake is the ECHR’s rule 39, which allows a judge to impose an injunction pending further legal proceedings to decide on the merits of a case. Alice Donald, an associate professor of human rights law at Middlesex University, said she found it “extremely hard to believe that the court would be willing to countenance any variation for the UK to be let off from complying with these urgent measures, or indeed would be willing to weaken the mechanism as a whole in order to placate the UK”.Asked for comment, the ECHR issued a statement saying it was “constantly seeking to improve and fine-tune its working methods”.
The justice secretary, Dominic Raab, and the attorney general, Victoria Prentis, were said to have been informed of the review during meetings at the court earlier this year.
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