@evoman3957 wrote:
Joe, I know he's your little buddy; but the defence gets a little more feeble each time. As far as I understand, the ECOHR was formed as an integral part of the EU structure; by the EU and it's member states. America, Russia, China, India, etc. etc. have ( as far as I know ) no recourse to plead internal cases to the ECOHR........and the ECOHR has no jurisdiction over those countries, or others outside of the signatory's to that court. Cases in the supreme court, of this country, can be overturned by the ECOHR; but it cannot ( for instance ) overturn verdicts handed down in the supreme court of the USA.
Wrong!
The ECHR was convened in 1959 - the UK was one of the founding signatories to the European Convention of Human Rights that established the court - 14 years BEFORE we joined the Common Market.
