pressure groups and rights things to remember

Question 1

what does abu quatada case show about the goc’s view on rights

Answer 1

the government will happily restrict the human rights especially the right to asylum.

Question 2

supreme court defending rights

Answer 2

2004 declaration of incom. allowed gay couples to inherit council flats

Question 3

supreme court failing to portect rights

Answer 3

2004 belmarsh case findings were simply re-legisalted over to controll terror suspects in a different way

Question 4

how many declarations of incompatibilty have been legislated over?

Answer 4

20/42

Question 5

pressure groups defending rights

Answer 5

ASH 2014
stone wall
gurkhas

Question 6

pressure groups failing to defend rights

Answer 6

• 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 vunerable when the gov repealed covid rules in feb 2022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

Question 7

BMA expertise being listed to

Answer 7

• helling the gov naviage ther first 2 lockdowns from their expertise and findings

Question 8

BMA being. ingored

Answer 8

• found sewell report ignored strucutla rcasim in the NHS ignroed by gov
• 2022 rolling back of COVID leg crtiicses but ignored

Question 9

membership of BMA

Answer 9

150,000

Question 10

membership of CBI

Answer 10

180,000

Question 11

influence of the CBI

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

why do pressure groups with a large amount of memebrs have succcess

Answer 12

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

Question 13

limit of representing a large amount of the population

Answer 13

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

Question 14

raptor alliance

Answer 14

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

Question 15

gin

Answer 15

lobbyists 2008 reprealed gina ct allowing small scale gin production which has become one of the most enterpirisng businssess

Question 16

2018 snoopers charter judical review

Answer 16

declared incompatible with human rights act and was changed to only allow governemtn to accsess sever criminals

Question 17

how did terroism legisaltion undermine indvidual rights for the collective

Answer 17

• 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

Question 18

terroism legislation reppealed to protect indivual rights

Answer 18

2001 act came under fire and reduce the amount of days to 90 then 28 then 14 under coalition
2005 act scrapped entirely

Question 19

informations legislation which undermines individual rights for the rights of the collective

Answer 19

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’

Question 20

infromation acts being repealed to protect indivudal rights

Answer 20

• 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

Question 21

2014 anti social behavior act

Answer 21

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

Question 22

2021 police crime and sentencing bill

Answer 22

would restict the rtight to assemble