2007-08-21 23:32:57 · 10 answers · asked by honest girl! 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I'd place a bet on it that if a few senior ministers or the PM were assassinated by an asylum seeker of any other foreigner resident in the UK the Human Rights Acts would be very quickly abolished.
2007-08-23 05:12:43 · answer #1 · answered by Clio 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We would have to leave the EU. All the Human Rights Act does is incorporate the European Convention of Human Rights into UK law, so that cases under the ECHR can be heard in UK courts rather than going to Brussels. Even if the HRA was scrapped we would still be subject to the ECHR since we would still be an EU member.
2007-08-23 02:32:16 · answer #2 · answered by Huh? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For all it's problems that get reported in the media, it actually is a very good law. Just a shame that the Daily Express/Mail report all the c*ck ups that a handful of barristers and judges have made interpreting it.
Here are some positive cases that didn't get much reporting the media
• A local authority was failing to provide school transport for physically disabled children in its area with special educational needs. A local action group used human rights arguments to persuade them to change their policy – recognizing that they needed to get out and about and take part in social activities just like other children (Article 8).
• A care home for elderly people had a blanket policy of not providing residents with bed-pans between lunch-time and tea-time. This was challenged by a local support group as a breach of the residents' right to respect for their private life under Article 8 of the convention. The policy was changed.
• Ms A and B
Ms A and B are two disabled sisters, who need assistance in order to move, living with their parents in a specially adapted house. The local authority policy imposed a complete ban on all manual lifting of people which meant that the sisters were unable to be move or go outside their home. They challenged the ban in Court. The judge concluded that a complete ban on manual lifting is unlikely to be lawful, because it does not consider a person’s individual circumstances. Inhuman or degrading treatment contrary to Article 3 might occur if the women were left in their own bodily waste or stuck on the lavatory for hours. The Court ordered the local authority to revisit its policy to make sure it struck a better balance between the human rights of the sisters and the rights of the carers to a safe working environment. See A and others v East Sussex County Council and other [2003].
These are just three, there are many more. I welcome Human Rights!
2007-08-22 00:01:39 · answer #3 · answered by Spawnee 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We will keep the human rights act, its extremely important because we are all human beings and deserved to be treated like humans.
2007-08-23 08:44:06 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Abba 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Firstly we would have to leave the EU as, regardless of the Act, we would still be signatories to the European Convention of Human Rights which we were governed by prior to the HRA.
2007-08-22 03:48:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
For people to be happy to give up their human rights. The human rights act protects you just as much as it protects people you don't like.
2007-08-21 23:44:35 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Lots of people who don't want their Human Rights anymore?
2007-08-21 23:41:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
All that is required is for the Government to inform the E.U. that we will withdraw from this Human rights treaty and set up our own bill of rights. The human rights act is a creation of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels mainly lawyers who are doing very nicely out of it.
SCRAP THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT
2007-08-21 23:56:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋
A government with Balls the size of Maggie's
Bring back the Iron Lady
2007-08-22 00:05:07 · answer #9 · answered by derek m 3 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Some common sense?
2007-08-21 23:57:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋