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Steve Peers
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Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Next book: UK Trade Law after Brexit (OUP, forthcoming)
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Jenrick's reply profoundly fails to understand the legal & historical context. Magna Carta yada yada had not prevented a string of miscarriages of justice in UK courts; but the European Court of Human Rights had addressed some UK state excesses re the Troubles. Hence the GFA requirement of the ECHR.

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As @chrisgrey.bsky.social points out in today's blog, this ECHR stuff [imo: an out-of-power self-indulgence and an attempted 'clickbait' for the hard right] may also have the effect (if soon a Shadow Cabinet shibboleth) of making a stable UK polity harder to perceive - a continuing Brexit effect.

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Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Next book: UK Trade Law after Brexit (OUP, forthcoming)
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