The English Bill of Rights - a bill of responsibilities!
Posted
Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:23 PM
by
Tom Boone
This is really interesting. The proposed new British Bill of Rights looks
increasingly like a bill of responsibilities. Responsibilities that
are enforceable in court!
More from The Guardian:
A new British bill of rights and duties may include duties of
behaviour between fellow citizens that are enforceable by judges, the
justice secretary Jack Straw indicated yesterday. Straw, also lord
chancellor, is planning a British bill of rights to complement the
European convention on human rights. The exercise is separate from a
possible 20-year plan to introduce a potential British written
constitution.
Straw made his remarks in a speech at George Washington University,
Washington DC, where he also indicated that a written constitution was
20 years away. He said he was looking at a US-style sentencing
commission that might take into account the size of the prison
population in making broad decisions on sentencing.