nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230505-204527-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230505s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230505-204527-0 doi eng 342 23 Donald, Alice Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-8541-3530 The UK vs the ECtHR - Anatomy of A Politically Engineered Collision Course Donald, Alice Verfassungsblog 2023-05-05 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In recent months, the UK government has tabled two Bills - the Bill of Rights Bill and the Illegal Migration Bill - before Parliament which would have the consequence - and almost certainly have the intention - of setting the UK on a collision course with the Council of Europe, and especially the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This post details how these Bills serve to undermine the UK’s obligations under the ECHR and explains their significance within the larger debate surrounding the UK’s possible withdrawal from the Convention. It places this debate in the context of the rarely-convened Council of Europe summit of heads of state and government in Reykjavik in May 2023, whose ambitious agenda is to protect the ‘common heritage’ of respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law in the face of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and other existential threats. CC BY-SA 4.0 Council of Europe European Court of Human Rights Human Rights Act 1998 Illegal Migration Bill Strasbourg United Kingdom withdrawal from the Council of Europe Leach, Philip Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-uk-vs-the-european-court-of-human-rights-on-a-politically-engineered-collision-course/ raw object