pressure groups and rights things to remember Flashcards
what does abu quatada case show about the goc’s view on rights
the government will happily restrict the human rights especially the right to asylum.
supreme court defending rights
2004 declaration of incom. allowed gay couples to inherit council flats
supreme court failing to portect rights
2004 belmarsh case findings were simply re-legisalted over to controll terror suspects in a different way
how many declarations of incompatibilty have been legislated over?
20/42
pressure groups defending rights
ASH 2014
stone wall
gurkhas
pressure groups failing to defend rights
- BMA ignored when trying to defend rights of the critically. vunerable when the gov repealed covid rules in feb 2022
- liberty 2017 snoopers charted supreme court case
BMA expertise being listed to
- helling the gov naviage ther first 2 lockdowns from their expertise and findings
BMA being. ingored
- found sewell report ignored strucutla rcasim in the NHS ignroed by gov
- 2022 rolling back of COVID leg crtiicses but ignored
membership of BMA
150,000
membership of CBI
180,000
influence of the CBI
The CBI can claim to represent a broad - if unbalanced -representation of the UK business which makes it easy for the Government to go to them to get the business point of view – a kind of ‘one stop shop’ for the Government.
why do pressure groups with a large amount of memebrs have succcess
the fact that they represent such a large amount of the population means that the govenment know that listenting ot their policies will giv ethem electroal support
limit of representing a large amount of the population
if the gorusp dont fit in with the ideology of the governemtn it is unlikley that they will influence
trade unions that NUT are unlikely to majorly effect gov policy
raptor alliance
very small group represending pigeon fanciers who gaine dinfelunce over the gov to. lobby them on behalf of protectign racing. pidegons from brid sof prey by putting on a commons v lords pideon race
gin
lobbyists 2008 reprealed gina ct allowing small scale gin production which has become one of the most enterpirisng businssess
2018 snoopers charter judical review
declared incompatible with human rights act and was changed to only allow governemtn to accsess sever criminals
how did terroism legisaltion undermine indvidual rights for the collective
- 2001 anti teorroism act allowed terror suspects to be put on trial for an infinate amount of days iwthout trial
- proposed bill after 7/7/ in 2005 wanted to eelctrocially tag adn take away phones of suspects
taking away indivdual rights to protect the collective
terroism legislation reppealed to protect indivual rights
2001 act came under fire and reduce the amount of days to 90 then 28 then 14 under coalition
2005 act scrapped entirely
informations legislation which undermines individual rights for the rights of the collective
thw 2017 investagatory powers act allowed police and law enforcement to gather information. from data phone calls and emails form awnayone in oder to ;protect the country’
infromation acts being repealed to protect indivudal rights
- after 2018 judicial review into the act it was limited to only being able to accsess criminals
freedom of informations act allowing people to accsess all information on themselves, MPs tried to exept themsleves from this but the lrods stuck it down as it is the right of the indivdual to accsess public docs
2014 anti social behavior act
allowed local councils to enforce public space protection orders that prohibits some action sin certiansapces
one prohibited ;acting in a manner to cause annoyance
this resticts freedom of expression and right to assemble
2021 police crime and sentencing bill
would restict the rtight to assemble
