Human Rights Judgments - Human Rights Joint Committee

Human Rights Joint Committee - Seventh Report
Human Rights Judgments

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to be printed 4 March 2015.

Contents

Terms of Reference

1 Introduction

Background

Our work on human rights judgments in the 2010-15 Parliament

2 Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

The factual context

The number of Strasbourg judgments finding a violation by the UK

The UK's record on implementing judgments of the European Court

3 Insufficient progress towards implementation

The three areas of concern

Inadequate investigations into deaths in Northern Ireland

Lack of implementation in devolved jurisdictions, especially Northern Ireland

Failure to amend the law concerning prisoner voting

Other outstanding issues

Whole life tariffs

"No win, no fee agreements" in privacy and defamation cases

4 Declarations of Incompatibility by UK courts

The statistics

Declarations of incompatibility during the 2010-2015 Parliament

The right to a fair hearing before the Independent Safeguarding Authority

Disclosure of convictions and cautions

Retrospective fast-track legislation

Implementation of earlier declarations of incompatibility

5 Reform of the European Court of Human Rights

The ongoing reform process

The reduction in the backlog

Increasing parliamentary involvement

6 Systemic issues

Background

Co-ordination and provision of information

The Government's annual report on responses to human rights judgments

Conclusions and recommendations

Declaration of Lords' Interests

Formal Minutes

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament