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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Apr 2016
European Convention on Human Rights: UK Membership

"May I make it absolutely clear from the very beginning that I hold the Home Secretary in the highest regard? However, I was horrified—absolutely horrified—by her suggestion yesterday that the United Kingdom would leave the European convention on human rights. I am horrified by that suggestion. After 30-plus years of …..."
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Written Question
Administrative Scheme for the "On the Runs" Independent Review
Tuesday 22nd July 2014

Asked by: Lady Hermon (Independent - North Down)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, if he will publish the advice the Law Officers' Department gave to Lady Hallett on the lawfulness of the administrative scheme operated for the benefit of on-the-runs.

Answered by Robert Buckland

The then Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, and a member of the Attorney General’s Office gave evidence to the Hallett Inquiry but did so as witnesses rather than legal advisers. Lady Justice Hallett reached her own view on the lawfulness of the administrative scheme.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Feb 2014
John Downey

"I have enormous regard for the Attorney-General, and this Attorney-General knows perfectly well that the European convention on human rights guarantees an effective remedy for every breach of the rights guaranteed in our convention. I am sure that the Attorney-General and others in the House would agree with me that …..."
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