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| June 11, 2012 | UK to get tough on foreign criminals using human rights laws to stay in country | | London: British Home Secretary Theresa May has warned judges to
stop allowing overseas prisoners, law-breakers and illegal immigrants to stay on in Britain on the grounds that they have a right to a family life. She promised
a vote in Parliament to ram home to judges 'what the public believe' and persuade
them 'to take into account what Parliament has said'. "What I'm going to do is
actually set out the rules that say this is what Parliament, this is what the
public believe is how you balance the public interest against the individual's
interest," May had told the BBC. "Failure by the judiciary to listen will result
in new laws to curb the exploitation of the human rights legislation by foreign
criminals," The Daily Mail quoted May as saying. According to figures, more than
100 criminals whom ministers hope to deport, are released from jail every month.
They routinely plead they have a right to a family life in the country. A leading
immigration pressure group said that Britain would need to withdraw from the jurisdiction
of the European Court of Human Rights before Parliament could regain the right
to set immigration law. She said lawyers had complained that the courts had not
been given clear Parliamentary guidance on what the right to a family life should
be. "Parliament is going to set that out," she said. However, some senior Tory
backbenchers doubted that a vote by MPs would make an impact.
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