A flight of refugees to Rwanda has been halted by various legal challenges. Several involved the European Court of Human Rights set up in 1959 based on the post 1945 Declaration of Human Rights.
Home Secretary Priti Patel will no doubt continue to pursue her racist policy just as protests and challenges will.
Writing in Whigs and Hunters the historian E P Thompson made an unfashionable defence of the law. He agreed the law was a class instrument used to defend the rights of the rich. Yet these rights could be and often were challenged by the poor.
On occasion the poor won and as Thompson noted at this point the rich often discreetly withdrew. The occasional defeat underwrote the ‘fairness’ of their system.
The alternative? See arbitrary power and Priti Patel
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