Law Society of Scotland, Written Submission, p.7A range of respondents, including the Law Society of Scotland and Professor Aileen McHarg of Strathclyde University, stated that the Bill as currently drafted would result in a diminution of citizens’ rights and that it was not possible to identify exactly what the fundamental rights or principles are that exist irrespective of the Charter. 3This is a reference to Clause 5(5) of the Bill which provides that notwithstaindg Clause 5(4)’s statement that the Charter is not to form part of domestic law this ‘does not affect the retention in domestic law…of any fundamental rights or principles which exist irrespective of the Charter”..