A democratic defence of the European Court of Human Rights – OUP Blog

Posted September 12th, 2016 in constitutional reform, courts, human rights, news, treaties by sally

‘“Vote leave, take control” was the slogan of almost fiendish simplicity that helped win the Brexit referendum, masking the mendacity and absence of vision that underlay it. The impulses it captures—wresting sovereignty back from remote elites to Westminster, with its proud democratic tradition—echo those that have for years underpinned the opprobrium directed at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in British public debate.’

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OUP Blog, 12th September 2016

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