Britain in the dock for human rights failures

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Britain has one of the worst human rights records in Europe and faces investigation over its failure to comply with a series of European court rulings.

More than 100 findings have been lodged against Britain to which the Government has not adequately responded, five years after Tony Blair said he had fulfilled his promise to "bring rights home" by implementing the Human Rights Act.

These range findings from violations of the rights of mental health patients to the failure to protect children from unlawful corporal punishment in the home.

Of the 47 signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights, Britain has 107 guilty judgments - the sixth highest number - issued by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Most of these are expected to be resolved by Britain, but many of the most serious violations date to the first few years of the Labour government.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article316691.ece

[Kipling]

1. And not before fuckin' time.

[non sociopath skin]

2. When I was doing the legal module of last year's counselling course ...

... I discovered that the Human Rights Act was necessitating a complete rewrite of the British Mental Health Act.

The Skin