LAND RIGHTS CASE IN ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE

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To: <mailto:james at vomit.cc>James 
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:31 PM


LAND RIGHTS CASE IN ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE:
  
The Royal Courts of Justice will decide, on Monday 6th August, whether to
allow a human rights case to be judicially-reviewed and the matter referred
to the House of Commons for a remedial order to be made. A member of the
Women's Land Reform Group, based in Edinburgh, is applying to quash a
dispossession order on the grounds that it is a violation of her land
(property) rights, in breach of the Human Rights Act. If permission is
granted, this test case will offer the Government its awaited opportunity
to amend the legislation which was known to be incompatible when the Human
Rights Act was passed. The Government declared its intention to make the
amendment in order to sign and ratify Protocol 7 of the European Convention
on Human Rights: the onus is now on the Administrative Court to act in the
public interest, on the 6th August, and refer this matter to the House of
Commons.