Human Rights Act, 1998 and Equality Act, 2010: Regulation of Criminal Fraud Investigations

HUMAN RIGHTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................................................2
INTRODUTION..............................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUTION
Human Rights are the norms that aim at protecting all the people everywhere from serious
legal, political and social abuse. These are framed simply as people are existing as humans and
the rights are not granted by state. Human rights are freedom of religion, fair trial on charge with
crime, right to education and the right of not getting tortured. Philosophy of the human rights
address questions related to content, existence, justification, universality and the legal status of
the human rights. Strong claims are made often on behalf of the human rights. These are
universal rights and every individual around the globe deserves to be treated with equality and
dignity. Government have the duty of protecting individuals against the human rights abuse by
the third parties. Companies are also recognising their moral, legal and commercial needs to get
involved. Present report is focused over Human Rights Act 1998 and the Equality Act 2010 and
they regulate the criminal fraud investigations.
MAIN BODY
“Human Rights Act, 1998 and Equality Act, 2010 and how they regulate criminal fraud
investigation”
Human Rights
These rights are inherent to all the humans regardless of their race, religion, nationality, sex
and other status. The rights of human include right to liberty, life, freedom from slavery and
torture, freedom of expression or opinion, education right and many more. Every individual is
entitled with these rights without any discrimination.
International laws for human rights lays obligation on government to act in the certain ways
or refrain from the certain acts for promoting and protecting the human rights as well as
fundamental freedom of the individuals or the groups. United Nations have provided broad range
of the internationally accepted human rights including cultural, civil, political, economic and the
social rights. Mechanism has also been established promoting and protecting the rights and
assisting the states in carrying out the responsibilities.
Human Rights Act, 1998
It is an Act of the Parliament of UK that received the Royal Assent on November 9, 1998
and came into force in October, 2000. Act was framed for incorporating rights in ECHR into UK
law. It makes remedy for the breach of convention rights that are available in courts of UK. Law
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