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Voting by Prisoners

I am not a lawyer and would defer to the Attorney-General for a legal answer. As an hon. Member said earlier, ““We are where we are””—I think we have to go from that particular point. We need to put all this into perspective. Since the convention came into force, Russia has faced more than 1,000 adverse judgments; Turkey has had more than 2,000, 228 of which were in 2010 alone; Poland has had 761; Ukraine has had 709; and Romania has had just over 700. What if the UK defied the Court? Dissent is unacceptable, because we would be saying it was acceptable for countries that face thousands of charges, many on grave human rights abuses, to flout international law. That is clearly unacceptable. How do we reconcile our opposition to the Court's judgment?