Perhaps because the other Democracies you allude to have never sought to bind their neighbours to their own vision of democracy and law through a voluntary convention. We chose to devise a system to … (View Post)

That is simply not true. The Convention that Churchill designed with Mitterand and Adenauer and subsequently signed explicitly included the Court to oversee and adjudicate. The fact that it took a fu… (View Post)

They adjudicated on the Government breaking their own laws. Just as any other court should also do. Now it might be that with the new Supreme Court and post the 1998 HRA the ECtHR is redundent but if… (View Post)

The thing is it is not just the Court. It is the Convention as well. You cannot be a signatory to the Convention without accepting the jurisdiction of the court. (View Post)

The problem with the advocates of leaving the ECHR is that they end up like the idiots in the US who want to defund the police. Reform is essential but it won't happen if you just shut the whole… (View Post)