The Swiss Parliament has rejected a 'landmark' climate ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that claimed the country's climate policies breached its citizens' rights by being insufficiently severe.
When Dicey summarised the principle of parliamentary sovereignty he wrote: "Parliament can do everything but make a woman a man and a man a woman." Alas, thanks to the European Court of Human Rights, that's no longer true.
Rishi Sunak has once again been dropping hints about leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. This is not credible, says Dr David McGrogan: such a feat would require a Government far more serious than this one.
Forget the old ladies of Switzerland. The real winners from the ECHR climate verdict are green billionaires. They groom journalists and politicians to promote Net Zero – and even run re-education courses for judges.
A group of senior Swiss women has succeeded in getting the ECHR to declare that addressing climate change is a human right. Yet the Swiss are living longer than ever, even as the summers gently warm, says Ben Pile.
The ECHR's discovery of a human right to be protected from climate change is the culmination of decades of overreach in what human rights law requires at the expense of democracy, says Dr David McGrogan.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Swiss Government had violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to do enough to combat climate change.
If the ECHR can decide that a failure by states to protect citizens against the 'harms' of climate change is a human rights violation, it can decide that anything is, and democracy is undermined, says Dr David McGrogan.
The European Court of Human Rights could rule that governments have to protect people from climate change.
Revelations that Labour leader Keir Starmer previously represented the extreme Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir in a failed legal challenge against Germany's ban have raised concerns about his approach to extremist groups.
