"UK legal opinion: Adoption of IHRs this week would breach international law" – Meryl Nass
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EXCLUSIVE FROM THE UK: UK adoption of IHRs would be unlawful, leading Kings Counsel confirms
One of the UK’s foremost international law barristers and scholars, Sir Jeffrey Jowell KC of Blackstone Chambers, has confirmed unequivocally in a legal opinion obtained by UsForThem that a WHA vote this week to adopt amendments to the IHRs would breach international law. Proceeding with a vote would also threaten the rule of law and would fail to meet accepted standards of procedural fairness, he added. Key extract attached.
If a vote goes ahead the IHRs will become indelibly illegitimate, as the product of a breach of the very laws by which the WHO and participating countries intend for them to be binding.
On Friday lawyers at UsForThem wrote to @Andrew4Pendle, the responsible UK minister, and the @FCDOGovUK Mission in Geneva to put them on notice of the serious legal implications for the UK in participating in a WHA vote this week. As a standard-bearer for the rule of law, the UK must call for a deferral of any vote, or abstain and then opt-out.
6:21 PM · May 29, 2024 · 39.6K Views