Human rights
Were our human rights so limited or abused before our Human Rights Act? To say the court’s great virtue is that it is a supra-national authority insults our own highest courts; and that its merely “venial faults” are capable of being corrected is naive for any foreseeable future.
Allied to that, in arguing for a large reduction in MPs and therefore our legislators’ ability to maintain our human rights by properly scrutinising bills thoroughly before they become acts (albeit with an effective second chamber) John Dorward (Letters, 21 May) ignores that the number of ministers would need significant culling – or replacement by non-MPs.
John Birkett
Horseleys Park
St Andrews