The government is under substantial pressure to act to curb the powers of the Strasbourg court.
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The government calls for a new procedure so the Strasbourg court can offer advisory opinions that would not be binding on national courts.
BBC: UK presses for European human rights convention changes
Three men serving whole-life tariffs for murder will have their cases heard by the Grand Chamber, the highest level of the Strasbourg court.
However, Attorney General Dominic Grieve warned defying the Strasbourg court could be seen "as a move away from out strict adherence to human rights laws".
Former Labour justice secretary Jack Straw said the Strasbourg court had "extended its jurisdiction" from "fundamental human rights into social and civic rights, for which we have not signed up".
Britain takes the helm next month and has put reform of the Strasbourg court - responsible for enforcing the European Convention on Human Rights - at the top of the agenda.
The UK has been bound in international law by its terms and court judgements ever since, and in 1966 agreed that individual citizens should have a right of access to the Strasbourg Court.
Meanwhile, the Mail on Sunday reported Home Secretary Theresa May is planning to pull Britain out of the ECHR, stripping the Strasbourg court of its right to be involved in UK cases.
The Strasbourg court has ruled that it is up to national authorities to decide which prisoners should be denied the right to vote from jail but said that a blanket ban is illegal.
MLAs spent a considerable time asking Mr Larkin about the likelihood of a legal challenge to either the UK Supreme Court or the European Court in Strasbourg.
The court in Strasbourg said it dismissed the case because German courts, which had previously rejected the claim, had properly taken into account national and international law.
And yet a British court in London - not a European court in Strasbourg - has now provided yet another hurdle in the way of the deportation of what Mrs May called "a dangerous man".
It said the Supreme Court should carry on hearing Scottish criminal appeals because this would be a faster way to bring Scots law into line with international practice than taking cases to the European court in Strasbourg, Mr Salmond's preferred alternative.
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It was aimed at allowing people to claim the rights enshrined in the Convention without having to go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
The UK has been on a collision course with Strasbourg since 2005, when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the ban was a breach of human rights, following a challenge by convicted killer John Hirst.
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But lawyers for the tribunal called for the dismissal of the case, citing a judgement by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in May, 2000, which said that the war crimes tribunal was impartial and independent.
McKinnon was on the brink of extradition in August 2008, when the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, refused to reconsider the decision to send him to the United States, effectively clearing the way for his transfer.
Previously, a British citizen who felt that their rights under the Convention had been breached by a public body would have to face the lengthy and expensive task of pursuing their claim through the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg.
But in January this year, the government lost on the second critical complaint that he would not get a fair trial because Strasbourg decided (largely echoing the UK's own Court of Appeal) that the original torture evidence would be used against the cleric.
It is true that one must be a member of the Council of Europe if one is to be considered for membership of the EU. But other than that, human rights are CoE matters, not EU. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg is not a European Union body, it is a Council of Europe one.
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While the UK's Special Immigration Appeals Commission had accepted Jordan's assurances, she suggested the European Court of Human Rights - which is based in Strasbourg - had raised new legal points that had to be addressed.
Even if an appeal is rejected by Turkish judges, Mr Ocalan's lawyers will probably bring the case before the Court of Human Rights, the legal arm of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, which is threatening to expel Turkey if it has Mr Ocalan hanged.
But Mr Reckless said the Law Lords ruled in 2009 that Abu Qatada could be removed and the government should seek the Supreme Court's jurisdiction on the matter on this basis rather than going back to Strasbourg.
Whatever its views on the case, Mrs May said the UK was a member of the Court and a signatory to the European Convention of Human Rights and could not simply "ignore everything Strasbourg says".
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