Argument for and against the need of Human Rights Act, 1998

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INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The human rights are often considered as the basic freedoms and rights that are given to
all the people across the world from the time of their birth and remains with them till their death.
These belong to the individuals for a fact that they are the humans and provide protection to
them especially when they feel neglect, isolated or abused. These rights cannot be deprived from
them in any manner so that peace is maintained in the country (Williams, 2016). This report is
based on the argument for and against the need of Human Rights Act, 1998 together with the
own opinion.
MAIN BODY
The Human Rights Act, 1998 was designed by the Parliament of UK with an aim to
incorporate the rights given in European Convention on Human Rights. The Act provides to take
the relief in UK court for the breach of any convention right instead of going to European Court
of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The judges of UK courts are not allowed to over ride the
provisions of European convention but to make it compatible with the National legislation.
Arguments for the need of Human Rights
The Human Rights Act, 1998 was designed with the purpose of making the public bodies
bound to protect and respect the human rights of the people. Human rights are those rights which
cannot be taken away from an individual to protect its dignity and personal liberty. The
international bodies or commission have enacted the laws through conventions which every
country who is signatory to that particular body is bound to enact in its state. UK is a signatory to
Council of Europe subject to which UK has enacted the law called Human Rights Act, 1998
which is applicable in whole country.
In order provide respect and dignity to a human being to live a respectful life, human
rights are given to all. These rights are different from fundamental rights and covers those rights
which are unpublished or uncovered in order to secure justice to them. It helps in dealing with
the crimes and also helps in strengthening the judge's power to render justice equally to all. In
special circumstances like emergency, the fundamental rights of the people may become
unenforceable for a particular period but the courts have no power to make the human rights
unenforceable rather people are always free to exercise their human rights (Amos, 2016).