“… applies if otherwise the legislation would be incompatible with the Convention rights. In Poplar Housing and Regeneration Community Association Ltd v Donoghue [2001] EWCA Civ 595; [2002] QB 48, Lord Woolf CJ said, at para. 75, that courts should always first ascertain whether, in the absence of section 3, there would be any breach of th…”
“…pretation required by section 3 of the HRA were there an incompatibility with a Convention right: see Poplar Housing and Regeneration Community Association Ltd [2001] EWCA Civ 595; [2002] QB 48, at para. 75, in particular at sub-para. (a) (Lord Woolf CJ).…”