So. Much. Ignorance.
There is a right to privacy in English law, it has been much in the news of late. Perhaps news of so called super injunctions passed you by. Maybe you have never heard of the Family Courts, or have any idea how they operate. Perhaps you've never read a news story concerning crime where the victim, and in some cases the perpetrator, have their identity withheld. There are many other ways in which we have privacy rights that haven't grabbed headlines. The ECHR was specifically incorporated into English law by the HRA. That was the explicitly stated primary purpose of the act.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 22 Oct 2018, 8:32,
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dealing with your diatribes backwards, yes I know UK incorporated the EHCR provisions, my phrase "which we may be backing out of" obviously implies that we're still in it, if you're capable or parsing English I guess.
The EHCR is a requirement of EU membership, so my warning that we may be backing out of the HRA after brexit has some justification, and well as high profile opponents to it including the Murdoch's papers because of immigrant using it to prevent family seperations. The superinjunction derive their power from the ECHR. The landmark case which created superinjunctions PJS v News Group Newspapers was rejected then won on appeal with specific reference to the EHCR obligations. There is no British legislation that enshrines a right to privacy in the matter we were talking about as evillegion suggested there was, and other countries have, though there are some ancillary rights around property and family law. If we pull out of the ECHR as we may well do, we will go back to having nothing. And recent legislation like the snoopers charter suggests the government has little interest in developing new privacy protections. People think getting out of Europe will give us more freedoms, when it's often been the only thing protecting them
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 23 Oct 2018, 6:28,
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