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Why is the government so keen to “fix” human rights law?

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Joshua Rozenberg
Jul 08, 2021
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Possible government reforms to the Human Rights Act 1998 came under attack from two quarters last night.

Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report which concluded that there was no case for reforming the existing legislation. And David Lammy, Labour’s shadow justice secretary, accused the government of “plans to dilute, attack and w…

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