{"id":641,"date":"2008-11-08T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2008-11-08T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T09:45:08","slug":"happy-birthday-human-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday &#8211; Human Rights Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img size-medium wp-image-507 alignleft\" style=\"width:94px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gaol_newscastle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gaol_newscastle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Newcastle Gaol<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The Human Rights Act is 10 years old today; it has cost to the taxpayer up to \u00a3100 million.<br \/>\nNick Herbert, the Tories&#8217; Shadow Justice Secretary, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Labour&#8217;s Human Rights Act has fuelled a decade of rights without responsibilities, allowing a culture of grievance to devalue the concept of fundamental rights, yet failing to protect important liberties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Ministry of Justice spokesman said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Human Rights Act secures a fair balance between the interests of society and the protection of the rights of the individual. It protects all of us and is of particular importance to the most vulnerable in society such as people in the healthcare system and adults with learning disabilities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>News item <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/lawreports\/3399286\/Army-of-1000-lawyers-formed-in-first-decade-of-Human-Rights-Act.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle Gaol The Human Rights Act is 10 years old today; it has cost to the taxpayer up to \u00a3100 million. Nick Herbert, the Tories&#8217; Shadow Justice Secretary, said: &#8220;Labour&#8217;s Human Rights Act has fuelled a decade of rights without responsibilities, allowing a culture of grievance to devalue the concept of fundamental rights, yet failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}