Claim: Human rights laws and court judgments cost the UK billions, or alternatively, millions.
Fact-check: Counting the cost of human rights law - Full Fact
Verdict: the direct cost to the state of european court of human rights judgments has been several million pounds in the past 15 years. claims in the billions rely on doing effective calculations for the wider cost to the uk, which is impossible.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Conor James Mckinney
Date published: 2015-09-30T00:00:00