Date published: 2006/05/13
The BBC says:
The UK government might have to bring in new legislation to prevent the Human Rights Act endangering public safety, the lord chancellor has said.
Lord Falconer said cases such as that of rapist Anthony Rice, who murdered a woman while on parole, raised concerns over how the law was working.
The act was also cited when a court ruled nine Afghan asylum seekers who hijacked a plane could stay in the UK.
Human rights groups said the current concerns were not a fault of the act.
"Amending our human rights act because of gross public service failures is like handing a repeat burglar the key to your house," said Shami Chakrabarti, director of campaign group Liberty.
"Without the act, ordinary people in Britain would have precious little protection from maladministration."
The European Convention on Human Rights was incorporated into UK law in 1998 through the Human Rights Act.
Well if this was not New Labour you would think that perhaps they were just intending to make things better (since the Human Rights Act can be abused). As it is, however, the only logical conclusion is that this is all part of the Blair programme for the removal of civil liberties.
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