The Latest Breaking News from Strasbourg

The UK government has said it will introduce legislation allowing it to ignore certain European Court of Human Rights decisions after a judge in Strasbourg blocked flights removing asylum seekers to Rwanda.

The Deputy Prime Minister wants the successor to the Human Rights Act to assert British courts do not always need to follow case law from Strasbourg.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday that Turkey had unlawfully repatriated a Syrian refugee after forcing him to sign a document that said he was returning voluntarily. The Strasbourg-based court ordered Turkey to pay around 12,250 euros ($12,940) including costs and expenses to Muhammad Fawzi Akkad,…

The Ireland foreign minister was addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

The plane “to nowhere” — which never took off on Tuesday evening, intended for Rwanda — was just what the Government expected. The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, could not be happier with a situation where lawyers and Strasbourg judges (not the EU) are the enemy, rather than the organised criminal…

THE UK Government has a plan to effectively ignore future rulings from the European Court of Human Rights, the deputy prime minister has claimed.

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said interim orders like those used to ground the Rwanda flight should not be “legally binding” under UK law.

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab refused to give a cast iron guarantee that any asylum seekers would have been deported to Rwanda by the end of the year

THE UK withdrawing from Europe’s framework on human rights would leave a “gaping hole” in Scotland’s legislation and increase pressure…

After ruling by Strasbourg court, No 10 refuses to rule out withdrawing from European convention on human rights

The first flight due to send asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda did not take off following an interim ruling by the Strasbourg court.