Last week I linked to an article where a senior English judge questioned whether English courts should have to follow rulings issued by the European Court of Human Rights. A few days ago the former head of the English judiciary
made a similar remark:
Declaring that Strasbourg "is not superior to our supreme court" in
London, Lord Judge, who retired in October, said parliamentary
sovereignty should not be exported to "a foreign court".
He is the
third senior judicial figure in recent weeks to warn about the dangers
of an emerging "democratic deficit" if the ECHR continues to evolve into
in effect a law-making body and forces the UK government to give
prisoners the vote against parliament's expressed will.
