Human Rights

• Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 98)


  limited parliament sovereign rights on human rights
• European Conventions on Human Rights 1950 (ECHR '50)
• The HRA 98 incorporated the ECHR into UK law, meaning that the UK was now obliged to comply with the ECHR.
• Individual rights


  Right to life (Article 2) , A right to a fair trial (Article 6), rights to a family life (Article 8)
• The ECHR deals with fundamental freedoms
• S.19 HRA '98


  requires government ministers to state that any laws introduced to Parliament are in fact compatible with the HRA '98 so as to avoid unnecessary problems down the line
• Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001


  Allowed foreign nationals who were suspected terrorists to be held indefinitely without charge or trial
• Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001


  the House Of Lords held that this law was incompatible with Article 5 of the HRA '98 which allows rights to liberty as well as violating a suspect's right to a fair trial under Article 6