Fame Monster
Well-Known Member
The ECHR is a travesty anyway. If a sovereign country doesn’t have the legal right to enforce its own laws, then it is no longer a sovereign country!
The UK does have the right to enforce its own laws. It's only by a British Act of Parliament (much like the European Communities Act), the Human Rights Act 1998, that the ECHR sometimes takes precedence over English law (in the case of secondary legislation).
I agree that the way it's so vaguely drafted (purposefully) though is problematic.
We probably could do better than it, even if English lawyers were behind the ECHR.