Human Rights Act reform consultation: Scottish Government response

13. How could Parliament's role in engaging with, and scrutinising, section 3 judgments be enhanced?

232. The Scottish Government is strongly supportive of work which ensures that the effectiveness of legislation is kept under review. This is a necessary and important part of the post-legislative scrutiny carried out by parliamentary committees.

233. It is therefore entirely sensible for the UK Parliament to monitor and consider the implications of important court judgments.

234. The UK Parliament's JCHR has a strong record in undertaking scrutiny of this kind. As a joint committee, with membership drawn from across the political spectrum, the JCHR provides the most appropriate context within which any objective and factually-accurate consideration of the effect of section 3 judgments should be undertaken.

235. The Scottish Government is similarly supportive of work undertaken by committees of the Scottish Parliament to monitor and review the effect of judgments which have a bearing on devolved matters.