Think of David Maxwell Fyfe [the future Tory lord chancellor the Earl of Kilmuir who drafted the convention].
As currently drafted, the convention requires judges to retire at 70.
The wartime prime minister was a strong supporter of the Council of Europe which drafted the convention after the second world war to ensure that universal human rights were enforced across the European continent.
It is about addressing the mission creed which has seen human rights come into all sorts of areas for which those who drafted the convention back in the 1940s never envisaged.
Author: The text for this book was prepared by Victor Santiago Pineda, founder of the Victor Pineda Foundation and youngest government delegate of the Ad Hoc Committee that drafted the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
And, in the shadow of the second world war and the Holocaust, it was the tenets of the Magna Carta that guided the hand of Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, a Conservative MP, as he drafted the European convention on human rights.
The lawyers who drafted the European convention on human rights – many of them British Conservatives – made clear that it applies during wartime, tailoring its requirements to the necessities of conflict.
The Post quotes international-law and human-rights experts who suggest that this admission might open Bush to legal action: M. Cherif Boussiani, an emeritus law professor at DePaul University who co-chaired the U.N. experts committee that drafted the torture convention, said that Bush's admission could theoretically expose him to prosecution.
There she helped draft the 2005 Convention on Choice of Court Agreements.
"The western countries are the ones who drafted the Refugee Convention," said Paul O'Dwyer, a New York-based immigration attorney who has spent decades working on asylum cases.
There were echoes of the day in November 1995 when the NLD pulled out of the national convention drafting the constitution, and was left in the political wilderness.
