Human Rights Act

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• The foreign-national offenders that the government can’t deport

  22 Oct 2014: The deportation of foreign nationals blocked by European legislation is a small proportion of cases but media coverage has been huge

• David Cameron defends progress on bringing foreign criminals to justice

  22 Oct 2014: PM faces criticism of NAO report showing one in six foreign offenders has absconded, including 58 dangerous individuals

• Churchill ‘would leave Tories’ over pledge to scrap human rights act

  7 Oct 2014: Wartime premier would rejoin Lib Dems as Cameron ‘trashes’ his legacy, says party president Tim Farron

• Tory wreckers out to destroy their own human rights

  4 Oct 2014: Nick Cohen: The Conservatives’ threat to scrap the Human Rights Act emphasises how extreme the party has become

• Simon Hughes: Tories abandoning human rights to counter Ukip

  4 Oct 2014: Justice minister tells Lib Dem conference Conservatives care more about losing votes than British citizens’ rights

• Scrapping human rights law is an act of displaced fury

  3 Oct 2014: Jonathan Freedland: The Tory plan to break with the European court is all about blunting Ukip’s bayonets – channelling rage that should be aimed elsewhere

• The European court of human rights’ judgments that transformed British law

  3 Oct 2014: From curbing the British army’s use of torture in Ireland to ending bans on homosexuality, the court has shaped UK law

• Tory plan to scrap Human Rights Act could hinder Northern Ireland peace process

  3 Oct 2014: Northern Ireland’s committee on the administration of justice says human rights are essential to the Good Friday agreement

• Right rights vs Left rights - how the newspapers line up on ECHR

  3 Oct 2014:

  Roy Greenslade looks at the national press divide over the Human Rights Act

• Tories plan to withdraw UK from European convention on human rights

  3 Oct 2014: Chris Grayling says Conservative government would withdraw if parliament failed to secure right to veto Strasbourg court rulings

• Tory plans for European human rights convention will take UK back 50 years

  3 Oct 2014: Depriving people of their rights would seem something of an overreaction to one or two adverse rulings from the European court, writes Joshua Rozenberg

• Conservatives plan to scrap Human Rights Act – read the full document

  Interactive, 3 Oct 2014:

  Chris Grayling's eight-page strategy paper 'Protecting human rights in the UK' promises to 'restore sovereignty to Westminster' through a parliamentary override, breaking the formal link between British courts and the European court of human rights

• Conservatives pledge powers to ignore European court of human rights rulings

  3 Oct 2014: Critics say manifesto risks unravelling 50 years of human rights law at a time when nations such as Russia fight ECHR decisions

• The Guardian view on scrapping the Human Rights Act

  3 Oct 2014: Editorial: The Tories are not interested in sensible reform but in a gesture to appease their rightwing

• Cameron’s pledge to scrap Human Rights Act angers civil rights groups

  1 Oct 2014: Prime minister’s plans for landmark legislation criticised as shameful destruction of Winston Churchill’s legacy

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