why human rights laws are so controversial
The Human Rights Act, introduced by Labour in 1998, has been criticised for providing more protection for criminals and terrorists than law abiding members of the public.
Last year the country’s most senior judges warned that terror suspects were wrongly exploiting the British legal system by trying to “hide behind a cloak of anonymity”.
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A week earlier European judges ruled that a Nigerian rapist cannot be deported from Britain because a legal fight to remove him took so long he has developed a here. Akindoyin Akinshipe, 24, was first canadagoose-jackets-online told he was being deported in 2003 while serving four years for the rape of a 13 year old girl.
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Frances Lawrence, the headmaster widow, said the legislation needed to be Conservative MPs urged the Prime Minister to act on his previous pledges to scrap the current legislation.
It came after The Daily Telegraph disclosed that Learco Chindamo had been arrested canada goose outlet authentic four months after his release for the 1995 murder of Mr Lawrence outside a west London school.
The Government had been prevented from deporting Chindamo to Italy, where he lived as a child, because of the Human Rights Act. He was freed in July and allowed to live in Britain
Earlier this year, British courts won back the power to deport terrorist suspects, criminals and failed asylum seekers after European judges were told to stop interfering.
A declaration from all the countries signed up to the ECHR said it should only rule on asylum and immigration cases in “exceptional circumstances”.
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A special commission set up by David Cameron to examine human rights laws and the relationship between the UK and Europe last month made a series of recommendations on how to reform the controversial ECHR.
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But initial proposals from the commission made clear that the European court must still hear canada goose outlet shop cases that serious questions over the interpretation or application of human rights laws.
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In Opposition David Cameron and his party repeated promised to scrap the act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
In 2007, Mr Cameron called it “a glaring example of what is going wrong in our country”.
But speaking at the weekend, he said he and the Theresa May, the Home Secretary shared a concern that the Commission would work “more slowly” than the Tories wanted.
But he said action was already being taken to help end the “chilling culture” which the Act had fostered among people fearful they would fall foul of it.
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