MPs are calling for a British Bill of Rights, which would go further than existing human rights law. The cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights wants to include greater protections for vulnerable groups such as children and the elderly. Currently, our main protection in law comes from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) - an international treaty - and the UK's own Human Rights...

Commie tool The government should adopt a Bill of Rights for the UK, a cross-party committee of MPs and peers has urged. The Joint Committee on Human Rights said the bill should go further than current human rights legislation. The bill should give greater protection to groups such as children, the elderly and those with learning difficulties, it said in a report. Why do groups need greater protec...

George Williams (Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of New South Wales): As the United Kingdom faces a possible national debate on the future of the Human Rights Act and a possible Bill of Rights - not to mention debate over the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission advice to the UK government on a Bill of Rights for the province - it may be of value to keep eyes on the natio...

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has today published a report setting out its recommendations for the contents of a UK Bill of Rights. Their report is here, and the evidence that they took is here. Whilst the Libertarian Party is a staunch advocate of a Bill of Rights, in the current political climate an obvious concern is that such a bill might be a way of entrenching government interference a...

The Joint Committee on Human Rights seems to think so. On Sunday it said the government should adopt a Bill of Rights for the UK.

So we find ourselves at the top of a slippery slope, with Jack Straw breathing down our necks and pushing us firmly in the small of the back. Today the government publishes its discussion paper on a proposed new bill of rights and responsibilities. And if any of you were not convinced by my arguments the other day about the danger posed to society by the government and its human rights agenda, tak...

On the 10th of October the House of Lords killed off the prospect of voters getting the power to initiate referendums on local issues. Up until then the Localism Bill had contained a modest proposal to give local people in England the power to call non-binding referendums on local issues if 5% of their fellow

I am more than usually depressed by the report of the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights that is published today. A Bill of Rights for the UK? is a reaction to the present administration's kite flying for a "British Bill of Rights and Duties", and goes to confirm my suspicion that human-rights lawyers are equipped with a tin ear for political discourse as part of their education. T...

The BBC reported over the weekend: An influential group of MPs and peers has said the government’s approach to illegal file-sharing could breach the rights of internet users. The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights said the government’s Digital Economy Bill needed clarification. It said that technical measures – which include cutting off persistent pirates – were not

An all-party Committee on Human Rights has proposed that all Britons should be given a legal guarantee of "a decent standard of living, health and housing", for the benefit of any future government which may happen to care about its legal obligations. Such rights could be enshrined under the Bill of Rights which the Glorious Successor no doubt has in mind for the next parliament, along with