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Human rights fillip for CLA coastal access campaign Parliament's Human Rights committee today (Weds, 15 April) backed the CLA's amendment on the Marine and Coastal Access Bill by saying that a lack of a right of appeal would breach landowners' human rights.
The influential committee said in its report on the Bill that "we recommend that the Bill be amended in order to provide a right of appeal to an independent body". The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights went on: "We note that an amendment which would insert such a right of appeal into the Bill has already been proposed in the House of Lords. . . In our view this amendment would remove the incompatibility with Article 6 [of the] European Convention on Human Rights that we have identified and we recommend that the Government accept it." CLA Deputy President William Worsley said: "The committee has recognised what the CLA has been saying from the outset on this issue: that landowners have the right to a fair hearing in which they can appeal against the line of the proposed route and any other aspects of it. "We are extremely pleased about the committee's statement today because it vindicates our call for fairness on behalf of our members."
CLA MEDIA CONTACTS: Oliver Wilson, Director of Communications, 020 7460 7936 or 07702 928828, ollie.wilson@cla.org.uk, Phillippa Coates, Press Officer, 020 7460 7934, phillippa.coates@cla.org.uk NOTES TO EDITORS: 1. Article 6 . Right to a fair trial In the determination of his civil rights and obligations or of any criminal charge against him, everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law. Judgment shall be pronounced publicly but the press and public may be excluded from all or part of the trial in the interests of morals, public order or national security in a democratic society, where the interests of juveniles or the protection of the private life of the parties so require, or to the extent strictly necessary in the opinion of the court in special circumstances where publicity would prejudice the interests of justice.
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