Lord Hoffmann conferred, "the United Kingdom is bound by the Convention, as a matter of international law, to accept the decisions of the ECHR on its interpretation. ... It is noteworthy that in Germany the courts under the BO are in fact stricter and less flexible in their approach to interpreting fundamental rights in national security cases than in the UK court and the German government does not 'win' security cases more often than the British government. ...

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