European Court of Human Rights - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:39 pm on 5 September 2022.

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Photo of Lord Bellamy Lord Bellamy The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice 2:39, 5 September 2022

The position of interim measures under the convention, and in the jurisprudence of the European Court and its rules of procedure, is a matter of great delicacy that at the moment is in effect being scrutinised in the Rwanda proceedings currently before the High Court in this country. I think it inappropriate to go further, but the provision in the Bill to which the noble Lord has referred is, in the Government’s view, entirely in accordance with the convention.