Human Rights Act 1998

Lord Morgan Excerpts

Wednesday 12th October 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord McNally]

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Bach, referred to the Guardian article by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Irvine, in which the noble and learned Lord says that,

“the main proponents of the European convention were Conservatives, including Churchill and Macmillan. The convention was substantially the work of British jurists in a tradition going back to the Petition of Right of 1628 and our own Bill of Rights of 1689”.

[Lord Morgan]

My Lords—

[Lord Tomlinson]

My Lords—