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The Human Rights Act should not be repealed

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There is no reason to repeal the Human Rights Act and the government’s manifesto commitment to do so should be dropped. The objections to it are misconceived, the arguments against it being based either on inaccurate understandings of what it says or error-strewn assertions about the nature of its impact. The political motive for attacking the Act – to undermine the UK’s association with Europe – has been overtaken by the much greater European disengagement of BREXIT.

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  • Gearty, Conor, 2016. "The Human Rights Act should not be repealed," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 68231, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:68231
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    Human Rights Act; BREXIT; European Convention on Human Rights; British Bill of Rights;
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    • K19 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Other

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