Rights protection Flashcards
2 ways parliament failed to protect collective rights
Nationality and borders act 2022
Altered the countries approach to immigration
In 2022 and 2023, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts and Public Order Acts were passed to limit the freedom of speech and expression of protesters and pressure groups
Parliament failed to protect individual rights
Hate Crime Act from Scotland could hurt freedom of speech laws
3 ways the executive failed to protect rights
2023, Home Secretary Braverman used secondary legislation to manipulate and push through the most controversial aspects of the Public Order Act including policing powers to tackle peaceful protest
In 2020 cabinet members did not consult parliament, since it was an emergency, to kerb social rights by placing lockdown restrictions
Justice Secretary Raab devised a British Bill of Rights to repeal statute rights held in the Human Rights Act. The move was to mirror the American Bill of Rights which the Secretary suggests will make rights more concise but critics warn water down rights.
MS (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020]
Protected the rights of traficking victims under article 4
Supreme Court ruled that removing MS without a proper investigation into his trafficking claim would violate these protections.
R v. Michaela Community Schools Trust (2024)
Court ruled that the schools ban of prayers did not violate article 9 of the ECHR
The court determined that while the student had the right to hold religious beliefs, the ban on manifesting those beliefs in the form of prayer was justified.
