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From a legal standpoint, how will a Human Rights threshold work?
I'm going from a Mirror article (hmm)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/13-basic-rights-youre-going-5673763
But there's this bit of it:
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This sentence, from page 6 of their document on how they plan to scrap the act, is chilling:
“There will be a threshold below which Convention rights will not be engaged.”
I.e. Your human rights will no longer be absolute - they will be subject to stipulations and caveats, though not absolutely lost.
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Obviously this is pointedly about man door hand hook car door but surely in the real world someone comes to our courts and the judge has to be able to be convinced that this is an exception where human rights don't apply. Do they have to give in to this or can the courts effectively re-write it if a judge isn't feeling as Stalinist as the Conservatives clearly do?