Source : Aljazeera
Following its refusal to authorize deportation flights to Rwanda, the UK will now be able to disregard certain rulings by the European Court of Human Rights.
The UK proclaimed it will create laws enabling it to disobey particular rulings of the European Court of Human Rights after a court in Bordeaux prohibited aircraft bringing asylum applicants to Rwanda.
Vice-prime Minister Dominic Raab will introduce the new Bill of Rights to lawmakers on Wednesday as the government attempts to execute its Rwanda plan, which aims to deter immigrants from making an uncontrolled journey of the English Channel.
Human rights organizations and religious authorities have called the programmer "shameful."
The first removal flight was given its go to depart earlier this month by British courts, but the ECHR intervened at the last minute with an interim judgement to prevent its departure.
The plan's legality will be fully judicially reviewed in the UK by the end of the month.
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Rule 39
On Wednesday, Raab stated that the measure will establish that the London Supreme Court is the final judge on matters pertaining to human rights. The regulation would also mean that interim measures from the court issued under “rule 39” are not binding on UK courts.
Raab said to the Sky News channel, "The UK Paramount Court should be supreme in their legal judgments."
The new plan, according to Raab, would "strengthen our UK tradition of freedom while infusing a healthy dose of common sense into the system," as opposed to requests from his party's right wing to completely withdraw from the ECHR.
These changes, he claimed, "will strengthen free speech, allow us to deport more foreign criminals, and better safeguard the public from dangerous criminals."
Priti Patel, the home secretary, claimed over the weekend that the ECHR ruling was politically motivated in order to advance a political story about how European institutions trumped British independence.
Following the Brexit vote in 2016, the UK exited the European Union last year, but the court is not a member of the organization.
The law would constitute "a significant step backwards for the rights of ordinary people," according to Sacha Deshmukh, chief executive of Amnesty International UK.
This is about taking away rights, not changing them, he declared.
London administration vowed to "take back control"
After Brexit, the London administration vowed to "take back control" of immigration and tighten the nation's borders. However, it is having to contend with a record number of people trying to cross the channel from northern France in small boats.
The French interior ministry reported on Monday that numbers increased by 68% in the first half of 2022.
According to the government, there were 20,132 people involved in 777 attempts to cross between January 1 and June 13—an increase of 68% from the same time previous year.
The totals for 2021 had already broken records. However, according to the most recent figures, if current patterns continue and the better summer weather sets in, which encourages more crossings, this might be surpassed.
In a spat that has further strained relations after Brexit, Paris has frequently refuted claims made by London that France is not doing enough to stop the crossings.
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