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The Reith Lectures

Jonathan Sumption - Law and the Decline of Politics

Human Rights and Wrongs

Duration: 42 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Jonathan Sumption argues that judges - especially those of the European Court of Human Rights - have usurped power by expanding the interpretation of human rights law. Show more

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