On Friday evening 5th March, Jason Sugarman, Conservative Parliamentary candidate for the Lewes Constituency, attended a Human Rights debate in support of Amber Rudd, Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Hastings and Rye. The shadow justice secretary of state Dominic Grieve QC MP hosted the debate at Tenterden Town Hall.
At the debate Dominic Grieve discussed the current Human rights act and how with a British bill of rights it would improve the current act by making jury trials a fundamental right in this country, the bill of rights could also be used to safeguard our own British rights as the current Human Rights Act argues for better facilities for prisoners instead of safeguarding law abiding citizens.
Jason Sugarman commented ` As a barrister specialising in criminal law, representing hundreds of people in Court, I see people who are disadvantaged and vulnerable, who truly believe that they have no responsibility for their own actions and that, whatever happens to them, there is always someone else to blame. This sorry situation comes as a direct result of 13 years of Labour initiatives that robs citizens of the ability, and even the wish, to be responsible for their own actions. I believe that is a great tragedy of our times and must be put right.
It is a fundamental right that everyone’s human rights should be considered but this has to work equally for the victim as well as the criminal’
