Tag: Chris Grayling
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Mark Elliott: Judicial Review Reform — The Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights
Earlier this week, the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has published its report on The implications for access to justice of the Government’s proposals to reform judicial review (HL 174 HC 868 2013-14). The report is, perhaps unsurprisingly, generally critical of the proposals and of the way in which they have been or are…
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Roger Masterman: A Tale of Competing Supremacies
In a recent interview in The Spectator, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling MP, was given another opportunity to recite the now characteristic Tory Siren call relating to the European Convention on Human Rights and the Strasbourg court. In the piece, Grayling bemoans the “utterly unacceptable” and “almost unlimited” ability of…