Mr. Andrew Copson:

I would actually agree with that last point but I would put it the other way. Human rights are nothing to be afraid of. If a human rights court says your law is incompatible with human rights and that it should be expanded for the benefit of the human rights of people, that is probably something you should welcome when it happens in your jurisdiction. Governments often do no like being challenged on the basis of human rights and nor do parliaments but if human rights courts find on the basis of the human rights treaties, which we in Europe have signed up to, that a law is discriminatory, then my position is that it should be welcomed as an expansion of the human rights of people who are otherwise suffering. I think it would be possible.