Human Rights

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  • Human Rights
    • Human Rights Act 1998 came to force in 2000
      • S.7 =incorporated in our domestic law now,
      • S.2 anyone who feels their rights have been violated can bring action in domestic court
      • S.3 courts required to inrepret statues in way which is compatible with HR 'so far it's possible to do so'
      • S.4 judges can issue  'declarations of incompatibility'
        • Wilson V First Country Trust 2003Brown v Procurator Fiscal 2000
      • S.6 unlawful for public authorities to act in a way incompatible with convention rights (Poplar Housing Care)
    • UK signed European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) in 1951
      • Rights werent put in law, weren't directly applicable to UK courts.
        • To assert rights = ECHR (france)

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