\u201cAnd I think this was the wrong start. In which country would we accept that? Someone creating really a brutal pressure on a court? We would say, no, you need to discuss this at the political level. My goal was to bring this back to Strasbourg and to address this at the political level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not our role<\/p>\n
Berset also warned that reforming the convention would not solve countries\u2019 own internal debates on migration.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs this able to bring an answer to the concerns and challenges that the U.K. is facing in the migration discussions? I think yes, partly. When we see that there are concerns, they must be better addressed. But it will never be able to solve the internal discussion on migration. \u2026 But it\u2019s not our role to have a direct impact on that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Berset noted that most U.K. migration cases invoking human rights do not actually end up at the European Court in Strasbourg, but are usually examples of British domestic courts interpreting the treaty\u2019s rights on their own. <\/p>\n
British courts have been able to apply the convention themselves since the U.K. integrated it into its own domestic law with the 1998 Human Rights Act. The number of migration cases from the U.K. that make it to Strasbourg is actually \u201cnegligible,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Many of the rights invoked in migration cases are also not exclusive to the ECHR. The principle of non-refoulement, which means a person cannot be sent back into danger, is often a factor in challenging deportation cases. But as well as the ECHR, the idea is also enshrined in multiple U.K. domestic laws, as well as other international treaties like the U.N. refugee convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd I think this was the wrong start. In which country would we accept that? Someone creating really…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9892,13,141,1360,661,1365,432,4709,3807,4980,1369,484,434,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-29545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-belarus","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-exclusive","13":"tag-human-rights","14":"tag-migration","15":"tag-moldova","16":"tag-poll","17":"tag-refugees","18":"tag-rights","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-shabana-mahmood","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116525228506096377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}