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The application of the Bill of Rights to the Kingdom of Ireland was uncertain. While the English Parliament sometimes passed acts relating to Ireland, the Irish Patriot Party regarded this as illegitimate, and others felt that English acts only extended to Ireland when explicitly stated to do so, which was not the case for the Bill of Rights. The Crown of Ireland Act 1542 meant the Bill's changes to the royal succession extended to Ireland. Bills modelled on the Bill of Rights were introduced in the Parliament of Ireland in 1695 and 1697 but not enacted. After the Acts of Union 1800, provisions relating to the rights of Parliament implicitly extended to Ireland, but provisions relating to the rights of the individual were a grey area. Some jurists regarded the bill not as positive law but as declaratory of the common law, and as such applicable to Ireland.[41]

The Bill of Rights is part of the laws of New Zealand.[47] The Act was invoked in the 1976 case of Fitzgerald v Muldoon and Others,[48] which centred on the purporting of newly appointed Prime Minister Robert Muldoon that he would advise the Governor-General to abolish a superannuation scheme established by the New Zealand Superannuation Act 1974, without new legislation. Muldoon felt that the dissolution would be immediate and he would later introduce a bill in parliament to retroactively make the abolition legal. This claim was challenged in court and the Chief Justice declared that Muldoon's actions were illegal as they had violated Article 1 of the Bill of Rights, which provides "that the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regal authority ... is illegal."[49]

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II. And be it further declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from and after this present session of Parliament no dispensation by _non obstante_ of or to any statute or any part thereof shall be allowed, but that the same shall be held void and of no effect, except a dispensation be allowed of in such statute, and except in such cases as shall be specially provided for by one or more bill or bills to be passed during this present session of Parliament.

The emergency bill introduced by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak would have the UK shirking its international responsibility to provide safe haven to people seeking asylum. The bill revives a plan to send asylum seekers arriving in the United Kingdom (UK) to Rwanda for probable processing.

On December 12, the bill passed the first vote in the House of Commons. The bill will now go to committee stage sometime in the new year and will be considered by the whole House of Commons rather than by a dedicated public bill committee, allowing all members of parliament to take part in the debate and vote. The legislation will then undergo a third reading before being passed to the House of Lords, where it is expected to receive strong opposition.

USCRI believes that the right to seek asylum is fundamental and urges UK members of parliament to reconsider the emergency bill and prioritize asylum rights, ensuring the safety and dignity of displaced individuals. Moreover, USCRI strongly encourages other global leaders to also safeguard these rights and comply with established standards of international protection.

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The measures represent a regressive step, eroding a cornerstone of our democracy as the Government systematically shuts down avenues of accountability through a series of rushed and oppressive bills. Such attacks on our rights are most keenly felt by those who are minoritised by society and the state.

A preamble was ruled out in debates preceding the HRA, but presents the opportunity to state the purposes and values underpinning a bill of rights and to articulate the constitutional principles it seeks to enforce. A bill of rights will be analysed and interpreted in the courts, but should also aim to be influential outside the courts.

Importantly, a preamble may successfully convey the essence of a bill of rights and achieve the aim of being widely understood, by the legal and political community as well as the general population, including children of school age.

Finally, process is all-important. Cross-party and popular consensus will key to a successful domestic bill of rights. Britain does not have a tradition of consultation before constitutional change. However, experience in Canada, South Africa and the Australian state of Victoria last year shows how extensive public consultation can inform and influence a bill of rights, ensuring public support which will secure its place in legal, political and public affairs.

Finally, Parliament should reject this bill because universal scanning and surveillance is abhorrent to their own constituents. It is not what the British people want. A recent survey of U.K. citizens showed that 83% wanted the highest level of security and privacy available on messaging apps like Signal, WhatsApp, and Element.

Yesterday Meta announced that they have begun rolling out default end-to-end encryption for one-to-one messages and voice calls on Messenger and Facebook. While there remain some privacy concerns around backups and metadata, we applaud this decision. It will bring strong encryption to over one billion people,...

Opposition from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales could pose a serious challenge to Conservative plans to scrap the Human Rights Act. Robert Hazell and Bob Morris write that if the new government tries to push ahead regardless, it may only be able to create an English bill of rights, with potentially negative consequences for the UK as a whole.

Under the Scotland Act, Northern Ireland Act and Government of Wales Act, the devolved governments and their legislatures are bound to comply with the ECHR, which in effect provides the bill of rights in their devolved constitutions. Although this has caused some teething difficulties, particularly for the criminal justice system in Scotland, the devolved governments have not felt anything like the same degree of discomfort as the UK government. In part this reflects their different functions: they do not face the same pressure of terrorism and asylum and deportation cases, with accompanying tabloid headlines, which has led Home Secretaries like Theresa May (or David Blunkett), or Prime Ministers like Cameron and Blair to express their frustration with the Human Rights Act and incursions from the Strasbourg court.

The devolved governments want to maintain adherence to the ECHR, which is written in to the devolution settlements. If the UK were to alter our adherence to the ECHR, the devolution Acts would have to be amended. But here lies the difficulty. Under the Sewel convention, formally expressed in the Memorandum of Understanding between the UK government and the devolved governments, Westminster will not legislate on devolved matters without the consent of the devolved legislature. The Smith Commission proposed to put this convention on a statutory footing. But even now, the devolved legislatures have an effective veto over any change to the devolution settlements in their own countries. If they want to remain bound to the ECHR, and not be part of any British bill of rights, they have the right to do so. They would simply not agree to pass legislative consent motions to the British bill of rights extending to any devolved functions. If that happens, the British bill of rights would then become an English bill of rights.

It follows from this that the ECHR must be given effect in domestic law. Indeed, the need to comply with this requirement was one of the main reasons for the enactment of the Human Rights Act in the first place. All 47 states that are party to the convention, including Russia, have incorporated it into domestic law.* Even countries with their own constitutional documents, such as Germany and Italy, have additional laws incorporating the ECHR. If the proposed bill of rights means that the convention would no longer be incorporated into UK law, it would set the UK apart from every other party to the convention and damage its international reputation.

We must do better than this. A bill of rights should, for example, include protection for same sex marriage, which is a fundamental and irreversible feature of UK society (the ECHR extends only to civil partnerships). There is a case for the protection and promotion of Welsh and Gaelic as well as British sign language. The experience of the pandemic has also advanced the case for recognising a universal right to national healthcare. The enactment of a bill of rights is not necessarily a bad idea, but it needs to take the ECHR as its starting point, not as an obstacle to be worked around.

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