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Should the Human Rights Act be repealed?

Ann Hynes outlines arguments for and against changes in human rights legislation

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This article is relevant for AQA AS Unit 1 LAW01; OCR AS Unit G152 and WJEC AS Units 1 and 2 and A2 Unit 3.

Passionate debates about the creation of a bill of rights have taken place in the UK several times in the last 50 years and much earlier charters are well known, such as the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1689. British people have been starkly divided on what the content of the rights should be and whether those rights need codification. The present debate is similar in character and shows similar divisions of opinion.

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