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Chris Barton's Sketch

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Date:24 MAY 2010

Chris Barton The Daily Telegraph's correspondents are currently vying with one another to build Dave 'n' Nick's promised Bonfire of Unwanted Laws. What about Part II of the Family Law Act 1996? Fourteen years since it was enacted nine since the LCD announced that it would repealed - is it being kept ‘just in case' like the Wandsworth Gallows were until 1993?

Kenneth Clarke qua Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice has announced that the repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998 is ‘not a priority'. But surely it is political correctness gone mad to retain such as Art 2 the right to life Art 3 freedom from torture Art 4 prohibition of slavery Art 5...? Has the Coalition no common sense?

Presumably these modern day Guy Fawkes's have in mind Acts of Parliament and regulations made there under. But what about case law? At Sketch Mansions the under-gardener under pain of flogging (the estate is naturally exempt from that Human Rights nonsense)...

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