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WHY USE US?

This is a subject that has generated a great deal of column inches in the newspapers over recent years.

Traditionally the United Kingdom is a country that has no written constitution and no bill or rights or anything of that nature. As a result it's often been argued that we should have one. The contrary argument however is that we have been doing very nicely thank you so far without bothering with one so why on earth do we need one now?

That is how matters stood until 1998 when the Government passed the Human Rights Act of that year. This came into effect in 2000 and is now in effect the British charter of fundamental rights. Since then there have been various cases brought under the Human Rights Act and eventually in the fullness of time no doubt the historians will form a view as to whether it was a good idea or whether we should not have bothered and just carried on as we were going before.

At the moment the picture seems to be rather mixed. Everybody agrees that human rights are a good thing in principle, but it seems that most people have difficulty agreeing on precisely what rights people had and which of them should count as human rights.

For example, if a prisoner serving a life sentence for mass murder has his stash of pornography confiscated, is that a gross breach of his human rights, or is he just a whinger who should shut up and stop complaining? Both views can be heard, and no doubt that debate will go on forever and ever and ever.

Most lawyers are fairly sensible chaps and are more than willing to help fairly sensible people with fairly sensible cases about fairly sensible arguments about human rights and that's how it should be.