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... which articles are qualified and looking at case law and journals to asses how effectively they protect our rights. Finally, the essay will conclude with how well the individual articles, and the European convention in its entirety, protect the rights of UK citizen's. In 1950 the ECHR was formulated with the purpose of protecting the human rights of all the people in the member states of the Council of Europe, which was formed following World War Two. Even though the UK played the largest part in writing the convention, and was the first to sign, it did not come into force in the UK until 2nd October 2000, when the Human Rights Act2 (HRA) incorporated the ECHR into domestic law3. Previous to this the UK did not amalgamate the ECHR because it was believed that the English Common Law which protected civil liberties was sufficient. Also, as signatories to the ...