Eight reasons why the Human Rights Act makes the UK a better place
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Back in December 2013, Chris Grayling said he believed that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) did not “make this country a better place”. Presumably he thinks this about the Human Rights Act too given the government’s pledge to scrap it and turn human rights into a privilege Parliament chooses to bestow on the few it deems ‘worthy’.
We fundamentally disagree – here are eight reasons why the Human Rights Act makes the UK a much better place.
1. Making ‘never again’ a reality
In the aftermath of the devastation of two world wars, our human rights were enshrined in law to ensure that these atrocities would never be repeated. The UK was instrumental in establishing the ECHR to protect us from human rights abuses by our own governments.
The Human Rights Act then came into force in the UK in 2000, bringing most of the rights contained in the ECHR into UK law so that individuals could take their cases to domestic courts for British protection, instead of having to wait for the sl...
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