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ost of the stories' headlines are reporting that the human rights act is responsible for many decisions in a court, when they are simply not.
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Another personal favourite is the 'report someone's attempt to use HRA to do something silly as if it succeeded'. Dennis Nilsen's attempt to get hardcore gay porn supplied to him is the classic example here, without the corresponding fact that it was thrown out immediately as being idiotic.
This is an isotope of the 'so and so's in court charged with a crime, therefore they're guilty' press mindset*, which if you think about it completely inverts the meaning of what a court is for.
On the deportation thing, I note that our new Government has pledged to...
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...stop the deportation of asylum seekers who have had to leave particular countries because their sexual orientation or gender identification puts them at proven risk of imprisonment, torture or execution.
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* 'A man was a vicious murderous killer who should be locked up forever, a court heard today' is the usual form of words, omitting until later the obvious fact that this is the prosecution case rather than the court's judgement on the evidence.