Disability Rights

Brexit, Law and Disability Rights, an overview

For a simple overview of the potential impact of Brexit on rights see this blog:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2020/01/13/how-brexit-will-affect-disabled-peoples-lives-and-rights/

Disability Wales and the Brexit Forum have also produced an Easy Read Frequently Asked Questions document which provides a useful overview:

http://www.disabilitywales.org/brexit-faq/

For a more comprehensive look at Brexit and Disability Rights – see this report by Professor Anna Lawson and Lyz Sayce:

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/sites/default/files/word/DR%20UK%20report%20on%20the%20implications%20of%20Brexit%20for%20disability%20rights%20-%2021%20June%202017.docx

Sources about UK GOV desire to leave EHCR: House of Commons – 26th April 2016, A parliamentary Q&A with the Attorney General, following Home Secretary Theresa May statement of the UK Government’s desire to cease membership of the ECHR. :

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-04-26/debates/16042638000003/EuropeanConventionOnHumanRightsUKMembershiphttps://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1138&langId=en

As a result of Brexit a future government could seek to pass laws which repeal or weaken our current rights below the standard of EU law rights’ (taken from the EHRC’s page :

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-brexit-workhttps://echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home