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Originally Posted by Damien
Isn't the HRA just the ECHR enshrined in British law? Looking over them there doesn't appear to be anything other than cosmetic differences. (Incidentally the bill I linked to was the HRA, I was just pointing out that the EU and the European Court of Human Rights are not the same thing).
Which makes me think that this is nothing but a PR exercise by the government. They will not leave the ECHR so any new bill will have to abide by it in the same way the current HRA does. They can't change or remove acts, only add to them. I suspect it will be largely the same, only with more populist language. |
It will naturally be largely the same, however it can restrict the ECHR to application only between state and people, rather than it being used in civil cases, and remove various curiosities that have arisen during its implementation.
That the HRA is being used by footballers to try and hide that they've been scoring in goals they shouldn't be is surely an indication that things are broken?