http://standpointmag.co.uk Welcome to the Standpoint magazine, the culture and politics monthly en /node/2923 <!--paging_filter--><p>The excellent <a href="http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/">Human Rights Blog</a> has a <a href="http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2010/04/15/parties-set-out-stalls-on-human-rights-in-time-for-election/#more-1241">useful summary this morning</a> of where the main political parties stand on the Human Rights Act 1998 (although the <a href="http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Justice.aspx">Tory policy</a> -- &quot;replace the Human Rights Act with a UK Bill of Rights&quot; - strikes me as deliberately misleading.</p> <p>In <a href="http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/opinion/joshua-rozenberg/lord-chief-justice-has-emphasised-importance-judicial-independence">my column for the Law Society <em>Gazette</em></a> today, I analyse the recent speech on the subject by the Lord Chief Justice and suggest that Lord Judge has been misunderstood.</p> /node/2923#comments Conservatives Human Rights Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:50:52 +0100 Joshua Rozenberg 2923 at http://standpointmag.co.uk