Matt LeMieux

19 October 2013

The Impact of European Law on England

The impact of European law, in this case a ruling from the ECHR, EU law, and English law was on full display last week as the UK Supreme Court ruled that a right to vote for prisoners does not exist. An earlier ruling by ECHR said that a blanket ban on voting rights for prisoners, like the one that exists in England, violates European human rights law, but the UK Supreme Court refused to enforce this right in the United Kingdom. The BBC, Guardian, and Euro News have more.