Good for crooks, bad for human rights
16th Nov 2006, 13:00 GMT
Most people have clocked by now that the Human Rights Act is good for crooks. What is less often remarked upon is that it is bad for human rights. The eight years since the passage of the legislation have, paradoxically, seen an assault on our civic freedoms without precedent in peacetime, says Daniel Hannan.
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