17 February 2023
Is the rule of law safe in the Lord Chancellor, Dominic Raab’s hands? In his column for this week’s NLJ, David Greene, senior partner at Edwin Coe, investigates the answer to this question.
It has declined swiftly in Poland and Hungary, Greene notes, so could the same happen here? Greene discusses the government’s behaviour when met with challenges to its plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, as well as the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.
Then there is Raab’s Bill of Rights. Greene writes that, while the Bill stops short of proposing the UK leave the European Convention on Human Rights, the government appears to be ‘scrapping for a fight to justify departure. That would be an extraordinary and retrograde step on many levels’.
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