... Bill of Rights is an effort to make it more publically accepted; a means of 'bringing rights home'3. A brief history of the Human Rights Act is relevant to look at, as it will help in understanding why the Act has brought about negative attention. The Human Rights Act 1998 was part of a plan to incorporate the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) into British law4. It was a way to ensure that Human Rights cases could be presented in the British courts, rather than having to take them to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg. It would seem that this would be good for the public, but it is not as simple as it looks. Although the Human Rights Act is a higher piece of legislation5 that protects a person from others as well as from the government, it cannot be argued on its ...

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