The United Nations Committee Against Torture will look at the United Kingdom's record on May 7 for the first time since 2004. What a difference eight ...

European judges have upheld Britain's blanket ban on political advertising, after the coalition government insisted it was necessary to prevent "those...

Theresa May has promised that a Conservative government would scrap the Human Rights Act and could go further by pulling out of its European obligatio...

So apparently Theresa May's plot to take Britain out of the European Court of Human Rights, viewed as part of her plot to succeed David Cameron as Tory leader, was actually leaked by a cabinet rival plotting their own plot against her.

Ken Clarke has rubbished justice secretary Chris Grayling's suggestion a future Tory government would withdraw Britain from the European Court of Huma...

There's a perceptible preference in British public attitudes for a return of sovereignty on questions of human rights, and a significant consensus that believes the European Court of Human Rights does less to protect Britain's interests and more to protect its criminals.

We cannot pick and choose which parts of the European Convention on Human Rights we abide by while at the same time shouting and lecturing at the poor record of other countries, such as Russia for example.

Plans for MPs to have a say on whether prisoners should be given the vote will be set out today by the Government in the latest round of its long-runn...

Parliament will be given another say on whether to give prisoners the vote as the deadline for Britain to comply with a European ruling on the controv...

Sickening though the thought of sharing genetics with them may be, rapists remain human beings. A person's humanity can neither be removed nor relinquished - no matter how disgusting their crime. So if we consider, as per the UDHR, that the right to vote is a natural, human right, the only limit can be humanity

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is becoming a "hate figure" in the UK, its outgoing president has said. Writing in the Independent, Sir N...

David Cameron has set himself on a collision course with the European Court of Human rights by inviting MPs to vote against lifting the blanket ban on...

A 'blue-on-blue' row has erupted after suggestions the coalition is poised to give prisoners the vote, with one Tory MP saying the changes would only ...

Extradition, in other words, does nothing for the fight against terrorism. On the contrary, it is a self-serving red-herring designed to conceal the dubious systemic failures of British and American security agencies from public knowledge, while vindicating their unaccountable powers to override the rule of law.

A key part of Hamza's legal argument was utterly absurd and it beggars belief that he has been able to delay extradition on this point.