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View from the Foot of the Tower: Taking the mayonnaise out of the sandwich – what might happen if the Human Rights Act is revoked?
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Without getting too party political in this piece it is the policy of this current Government to revoke the Human Rights Act 1998 and to replace it with a British Bill of Rights. We don’t yet know what will be in that Bill of Rights.
(The pedant in me says that when that is passed it ought to be the British Act of Rights otherwise we are going to have a British Bill of Rights Bill and later a British Bill of Rights Act…) I personally think that it is a shame that the Conservatives don’t feel the sense of ownership and pride about Human Rights that Labour feel about the NHS. The concept and design was assembled by Winston Churchill and Sir Maxwell Fyfe QC (one of the greatest lawyers this country ever produced). But that’s by the by.
The purpose of this piece is to think about what will happen to the law that we follow if the...
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