Human Rights Joint Committee: How the Human Rights Act works with the European Court of Human Rights

Dean Russell MP asks the Lord Chancellor, Robert Buckland QC MP, whether the Human Rights Act having to take into account rulings of the ECHR loses us control rather than gaining it back.

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