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UK pushback against Europe’s human rights extremism
The Daily Telegraph – July 30, 2010
We will not accept your word as law, Supreme Court tells Europe
European judges do not always understand the British way of doing things and UK courts will not simply “lie down” to their rulings, Strasbourg was warned yesterday. Lord Phillips, the President of the UK Supreme Court, said judges at the European Court of Human Rights may not “fully appreciate” how things work in the UK. His deputy, Lord Hope insisted courts here will not just accept everything Strasbourg says and will insist some rulings are explained “more fully.”