Human Rights Act 1998 — the UK government’s proposed reforms

The Conservative Party pledged in its 2019 manifesto to ‘update the Human Rights Act and administrative law to ensure there is a proper balance between the rights of individuals, our vital national security and effective government’. To that end the government established an Independent Human Rights Act Review (IHRAR), chaired by Sir Peter Gross.

Sir Jonathan Jones QC, senior consultant at Linklaters, comments in LexisNexis on the IHRAR report and the subsequent proposals announced by the government on 14 December 2021.

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