Rushcliffe MP Kenneth Clarke told the BBC he is "bewildered" by plans to create a British Bill of Rights.
The Conservative government have threatened to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a 'British Bill of Rights.'
Speaking to the BBC, the Conservative politician, said: "I find that rather bewildering, we are promised a drafted bill in due course, which I hope will address this in slightly more detail and correct any misapprehensions I've got."
He added: "I often, even as a minister, lost judicial review cases where I was rather annoyed by the judgement of the court, but I'd never proposed to sweep away the whole jurisdiction on that basis.
"As we have a giant bureaucratic modern government that goes into every aspect of people's lives, some protection is required against the occasional arbitrary decision of some minister or official."
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said the European Court of Human Rights had become intolerable and it would have to accept becoming an "advisory" body.
Mr Grayling said: "We are and we will continue to be world leaders in the way we manage human rights and the way we deal with human rights."
