Vídeo: A CEDH está de facto a impedir o Reino Unido de deportar migrantes?

is the ECR really blocking the UK from deporting [Music] migrants threats to leave the European convention on human rights are once again circulating in the UK as the right-wing conservative party elects its new leader some politicians accuse the European Court of human rights of being an obstacle to controlling immigration because the convention allows Asylum Seekers to apply to the court to challenge their deportation and in some ways it’s a exactly that the court protects every OD on European soil stopping countries from sending them to places where they could suffer serious human rights violations but the claim that the ECR is blocking the UK from deporting migrants is not entirely true the first reason is that the European Court of Human Rights can block deportations only under very very specific circumstances which is whenever someone faces a real risk of torture in human or degrading treatment in a third country the second reason and perhaps the even more important reason why that claim is false is that the legal principle of non-reform is not just based on the ECR it is a core principle of international law so even if the UK left the echr it would still be bound by other International obligations and treaties and wouldn’t deal with immigration any faster if the UK left it would sit alongsid the likes of Russia and bellarus outside the Council of Europe which incidentally has nothing to do with the EU so would there be any benefit to the UK leaving it would be a devastating blow to the UK’s reputation within Europe and Beyond as a kind of you know as a country that accepted basic human rights obligations it would also cause major difficulties with the EU in relation to our brexit deal with them which implicitly requires us to continue to abide by the EHR and it would also cause problems in relation to the good Ro grp