The way courts interpret the human right to family life has led to a "ridiculous and damaging situation" and risks a "dangerous" stand off between parliament and judges, the immigration minister Damien Green has said.

The way courts interpret the human right to family life has led to a "ridiculous and damaging situation" and risks a "dangerous" stand off between parliament and judges, the immigration minister has said.

The declining human rights situation in Libya has now been confirmed by the United Nations. According to the BBC, the UN’s Libya envoy, Ian Martin, told the Security Council in New York last Wednesday. “The former regime may have been toppled, but the harsh reality is that the Libyan people continue to have to live

The chief co-ordinator of the Syrian Network for Human Rights said Syrians "cannot tolerate any more humiliation".

Despite the briefing it received in advance, David Cameron's speech to the Council of Europe on reforming the European Court of Human Rights was fairly tame stuff. With the exception of his promotion of a "sunset clause", which it has been rightly pointed out could result in a denial of justice, the exact thing the ECHR is meant to prevent, it certainly wasn't the "savaging" the Sun desc...

David Cameron must realise that the Strasbourg Court has no democratic right to overrule us, says Alasdair Palmer.

One of the most colourful figures in the history of Irish socialism, Gerry Lawless, who has died in London, made legal history by taking the first case heard at the European Court of Human Rights. It was against his internment during the 1950s. He was the first citizen of any European country to take legal action against a government and, though he lost, he set an important precedent. Gerald ...

Euthanasia and assisted suicide should be banned in every country in the Continent, the Council of Europe has ruled.

Well, well, well, our mate Boris has been in somebody's ear hasn't he !   Mr Cameron seems to be back on "Dave" terms with Popular Alliance again, following his excellent performance in Strasbourg to the poisonous European Court of Human Rights.   Of course, Popular Alliance is fully in favour of ripping up all connections with this organisation, following it's d...

Inspired by The Dave's trip into the belly of the beast to ask all forty-something nations involved in the European Court of Human Rights racket to agree with his plan to make it less awful, I'm going on a trip to Scunthorpe to demand someone gives me a solid gold Ferrari full of diamonds. Some might say my plan is a barely coherent fanatsy, but if it doesn't work I'll quit and go home, which at l...