Belfast Agreement: European Convention on Human Rights

(asked on 18th July 2022) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the compatibility of the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights with the continued operation of the Good Friday Agreement.


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Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 26th July 2022

By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.

This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.

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