Longest-serving appeal judge, Sir John Laws, questions Lord Bingham's rule that Strasbourg is final authority on convention Bingham had laid principle that the interpretation of the European convention could only be authoritatively expounded only by Strasbourg Photograph: David Levene A senior judge has argued that the European court in Strasbourg should not have the last word on interpreting the human rights convention. Delivering the third of his Hamlyn lectures in London on Wednesday evening, Sir John Laws said that national courts should follow their own interpretations of human rights issues. Laws, the longest-serving lord justice of appeal, questioned an important principle laid down...
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