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Although barely 20 years old, the Human Rights Act (HRA) is one of the most important pieces of legalisation ever passed in the UK. It enshrines many important human rights into UK law – from the freedom from torture to free speech – and…
When the UN’s expert on human rights and extreme poverty recently chronicled the impact of the British government’s “harsh and uncaring” austerity agenda, anyone with a social conscience would have burned with shame. From families choosing…
Our rights are meaningless if we cannot enforce them in the courts. That is why legal aid – the provision of free legal advice and representation to those who cannot afford it – is an essential cog in the engine of a properly functioning…
Human rights have had a rough ride in recent years. The Human Rights Act (HRA) has become a proverbial ‘punching bag’ for certain Tory MPs, one of our most vociferously anti-human rights Home Secretaries now lives in No10, and, a few weeks…
