Posted by Stuart McKears on 07/07/06 21:38

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 21:41:48 +0100, ":::Jerry::::" <me@privacy.INVALID> wrote:

>It is technically UK law but is actually EU law that has been
>incorporated, the UK parliament had no role in it's drafting IYSWIM.

It's not an EU law.

The European Convention for Human Rights was set up in 1950 and was based on the
UN declaration of 1948. (AFAIK, Article 8 was one of the original articles from
that 1950 declaration.)

The UK ratified the convention in 1951

The EEC came into existence in 1958

The European Court of Human Rights came into existence in 1959

The last protocol was added to the ECHR in 1966.

UK government allowed UK citizens to take cases to the European Court of Human
Rights in 1966

The EU came into existence in 1993 with the Maastricht Treaty.

UK incorporates convention into UK law in 1998.

AFAIAW, there has been no significant changes to the ECHR since 1966, all that
has changed is that UK citizens now have the right to take cases directly to the
British courts rather than having to go through the lengthy and very expensive
procedure of going to European Court at Strasbourg. This does mean that trivial
and daft cases are started, much to the glee of the Daily Mail et al, but the
vast majority fall at the first hurdle - which what they always did.

regards

Stuart

www.mckears.com

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