UK to disobey European rulings on deporting migrants from Rwanda.

• UK government is presenting a new bill to parliament, to disregard ECHR decisions.
• The bill will “strengthen freedom of speech and discourage spurious human rights claims”.
• Lawyers claim it will weaken people’s rights and give ministers more power over their lives.

After the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) barred the deportation of migrants to Rwanda last week, the British government is presenting plans for a new bill to parliament on Wednesday that would allow it to disregard ECHR decisions.

The legal supremacy of the British Supreme Court, which had authorised the flights to Rwanda, will be made plain in a new UK Bill of Rights, and British courts won’t always be required to uphold ECHR rulings.

On June 14, a specially chartered plane was grounded just before it departed from a UK military base by the Strasbourg-based court, which has nothing to do with the European Union.

It was decided that a thorough examination of the controversial plan to deport migrants who enter the country unauthorizedly to Rwanda should be conducted by the UK judiciary and is due in July.

The Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, would be replaced with the UK Bill of Rights.

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The bill is intended to “strengthen freedom of speech and discourage spurious human rights claims,” according to the British Ministry of Justice.

According to the ministry’s statement, among its steps will be a confirmation that temporary ECHR orders, “such as the one obtained last week which prevented the deportation flight to Rwanda, are not binding on UK courts.”
British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said, “This Bill of Rights will deepen our British tradition of freedom while injecting a healthy dose of common sense into the system.”

Additionally, the law would restrict the ability of aliens to choose their right to a family life over public safety by making it simpler for them to be deported after being found guilty in court.

Raab continued, “These measures will strengthen freedom of speech, allow us to deport more foreign criminals, and improve public safety from dangerous criminals.”

He stated that the UK would continue to fall within the purview of the European Court of Human Rights in remarks made on Wednesday morning. However, he asserted in an interview with Sky News that it was “appropriate to push back” against ECHR decisions and that the UK parliament should have the final say on matters of national law.

However, lawyers and activists claimed that the proposal would weaken people’s rights and give ministers more authority. Currently, ECHR decisions do not have any legal effect on British courts.

It would establish a legal category of violations of human rights, according to Stephanie Boyce, president of the Law Society of England and Wales.

Amnesty International UK’s Chief Executive Sacha Deshmukh stated that it was not surprising that politicians held accountable by human rights laws desired their repeal. “It’s not about fiddling with rights in this case. It’s about getting rid of them, “He remarked.

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