Human Rights

Question 1

What are / acts associated with granting/limiting rights?

Answer 1

Granting:
- Data Protection Act
- Freedom of Information Act
- The Equality Act
- HRA
Limiting:
- Data Collection
- Terrorism Act 2000
- Withdrawal from EU
- Rwanda Policy
- The Elections Bill 2022 (voter ID)
- The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022

Question 2

How do Collective vs Individual rights conflict?

Answer 2

• Collective rights extended through Equality Act however on protected group using it against another e.g Gay couples used legislation so that Christian B&B owners cannot stop them staying
• Anti-Terrorism legislation was supposed to to allow police and security forces to invade privacy of certain individual however used to to target Muslim communities
• Covid and lockdown curtailed right but worth it for health however still protests

Question 3

What are 4 reason rights are poorly protected?

Answer 3

• Appeal process is expensive and difficult to understand (inaccessible)
• Judges cannot initiate judicial review, only take up individual grievances so dodgy legislation gives unchallenged till individuals raise grievances
• Majority of Judicial Review applications are rejected, of those taken up only 10-20% are successful
• Socialists believe social rights are poorly enforced compared to liberal individual rights

Question 4

What are / arguments that we have too many rights?

Answer 4

• too much emphasis on rights and not enough on duties and responsibilities
• wrong people have rights e.g suspected foreign terrorists, asylum seeker, illegals immigrants
• Worker, consumer and environmental rights restrict the activities of free market
• Too many rights reduce security
• Clashed between individual and collective
• Rights to privacy in HRA has allowed wealthy Aden powerful people to hide behaviour that is in the public interest