Mr. Les Allamby:

Certainly there are a number of very significant legal issues that arise if the proposals set out in October 2014 are put into effect. There are a number of areas in which that would end up being tested. I think it is both domestically and internationally significant. There is an interesting dynamic around the European Union because, increasingly, the EU and the European Court of Justice, though the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, will have a role in looking at the convention in some of the work that it does. Confining this to Strasbourg is no longer possible. We are moving to a stage at which the European Union and its own court have a role to play in considering the European Convention on Human Rights. Our relationship with the UK and the European Union also has to play out, but there are significant other factors, and these international agreements have ramifications, as Deputy Pringle states, beyond these shores.