Sunak will press for overhaul of European human rights court to stop it blocking deportations 🔴 At a Council of Europe Summit in Iceland on Tuesday, the Prime Minister will call for reform of the ECHR’s rules, ChaplainChloe reports
But he will use the meeting to call for reform of the ECHR’s rule 39 process – the tool used by the Strasbourg court toMr Sunak said it was “very clear that our current international system is not working” as he prepared to lobby leaders, including the president of the court, Síofra O’Leary, to reform its powers in order toThe controversial legislation is designed to reduce the number of small boats crossing the Channel by deporting those who do to Rwanda and banning them from claiming...
Rule 39 allows the court’s judges to impose “interim measures” in cases where there is considered “an imminent risk of irreparable harm” on human rights grounds. The orders allow the ECHR to impose injunctions, pending further legal proceedings, to suspend a deportation or extradition of someone who fears persecution.
But Downing Street said there was a need to “ensure we have an international legal system which allows sovereign countries to take the domestic steps necessary to help those most in need”, which would mean reforming the power of the court to impose such injunctions.
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