MCP wrote:

> http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005123789,00.html
>
> By DAVID WOODING
>
> THE Human Rights Act has become a "charter for chancers and makes a mockery
> of justice", Tory leader Michael Howard said yesterday.
>
> Mr Howard said the 1998 Act "rewards the lawbreakers".
>
> He told his party's Scottish conference: "What about the rights of the
> majority who wish to see decency upheld, who want killers to pay the price
> for their crime and prisons to remain places of punishment?
>
> "Mr Blair's so-called Human Rights Act has led to more costly litigation,
> more claims for compensation, and eroded the sense of fair play on which all
> justice depends.
>
> He added: "The politically correct regime ushered in by Mr
Blair's so-called
> Human Rights Act has turned the principle of fairness on its head."
>
> Mr Howard listed several crazy results of the law.
>
> There had been a 40 per cent rise in LIFE PRISONERS freed on parole.
>
> An ARSONIST'S expulsion from school was reversed because it breached his
> "right to education."
>
> A convicted serial KILLER was given hard PORN in jail because of "his right
> to information and freedom of expression".
>
> And gipsies are allowed to remain on UNLAWFUL sites because of their
"right"
> to family life.
>
> His attack follows a Sun campaign to stop lawbreakers using the Act to gain
> advantages over law-abiding people.
>
> Mr Howard argued that the Act offered NO protection for the most important
> rights.
>
> He said it had been the House of Lords which had protected the right to
> trial by jury, and Parliament had stopped Mr Blair's plans for detention
> without trial and excessive ministerial powers.
>
>

The f*&^cking Human Rights Act still does not
get a man the right to a fair trial in divorce.

I have been banging on about the failkure of
Human Rights in divorce since I walked out of
court in my own case 27 years ago.

D.


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