A new British Bill of Rights would give the Supreme Court primacy over European judges by creating a specific UK jurisdiction for human rights cases, government sources suggested.
Insiders said new legislation would state that Britain’s top court was the ultimate arbiter of human rights laws. The plans, to be unveiled later this year, would curtail interventions from European judges such as the one earlier this week that grounded the first deportation flight to Rwanda.
Under the plan, the government would ask parliament to repeal the Human Rights Act, which enshrined the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into UK law in 1998, and replace it with a Bill of Rights.
The move is designed to “break the formal link” between the British courts and
