Our excellent human rights record before the Court of Human Rights, unrivalled in the Council of Europe, is testament to the efficacy of the protection we provided for ourselves before the convention was ever open for ratification. Its hallmark has been its development by the superior courts through the doctrine of unenumerated personal rights and largely by means of judicial review of legislation. It goes without saying an important consideration for any government contemplating taking on board the convention's provisions is the relationship in that government's legal system between international law, as represented by the convention, and its own internal domestic law.