Human Rights

The incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights has made important changes to British Law and gives to the citizen many rights that did not exist before.

• Freedom from torture and corporal punishment.

• Right to a fair trial

• Right to respect for privacy and family life

• Privacy

• Freedom of expression

• Freedom of assembly

• Right to marry

• Prohibition of discrimination (or the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, age, gender or sexual orientation)