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Joshua Rozenberg
Thursday 15th April 2010
Rights and Wrongs
The excellent Human Rights Blog has a useful summary this morning of where the main political parties stand on the Human Rights Act 1998 (although the Tory policy -- "replace the Human Rights Act with a UK Bill of Rights" - strikes me as deliberately misleading.
In my column for the Law Society Gazette today, I analyse the recent speech on the subject by the Lord Chief Justice and suggest that Lord Judge has been misunderstood.
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Joshua Rozenberg is an independent legal commentator who presents Law in Action on BBC Radio 4.
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