Human Rights Judgments

The Committee is continuing its practice of reviewing the UK's implementation of adverse human rights judgments.

The Committee issued a call for evidence on 9 September 2010.

Guidance for Departments

Guidance for Departments on Responding to Court Judgments on Human Rights - Extract from the Committee's Fifteenth Report, Session 2009-10

Memoranda received:

Memorandum from Immigration Law Practitioners' Association ( PDF 148 KB)

Memorandum from Liberty ( PDF 115 KB)

Correspondence on specific cases: EctHR

Gillan and Quinton v United Kingdom

S & Marper v United Kingdom

Al-Saadoon and Mufdhi v UK

O'Donoghue v UK

Correspondence

Correspondence on Implementation of Government policy on deportation of people at risk of persecution on grounds of sexual orientation

Letter from Philip Leach, Director of the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute, London Metropolitan University ( PDF 0.99 MB), dated 26 April 2011

Letter to the Chair, from Rt Hon Lord McNally, Minister of State, Ministry of Justice ( PDF 53 KB), 8 September 2011

Letter to the Chair, from Rt Hon David Lidington MP, Minister for Europe ( PDF 206 KB), 27 October 2011

Letter to the Chair, from Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice ( PDF 76 KB), 8 November 2011, on the Election of a UK Judge to the European Court of Human Rights

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Letter to the Chair, from Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, ( PDF 101 KB) 29 February 2012, on the Election of a UK Judge to the European Court of Human Rights

Letter to the Chair, from Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice ( PDF 102 KB), 23 February 2012, on Draft Declaration on Reform of the European Court of Human Rights

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