Appeal court rules that ministerial code does not dilute human rights

The lord chief justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon, above, ruled in a case brought by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights that ministers were duty-bound to comply with international legislation.Human rights campaigners have lost a challenge against Theresa May in the high court in which she was accused of abandoning the longstanding principle that members of the government should be bound by international law.In a hearing at the court of appeal last week, campaigners from the Gulf Centre for Human Righ