no appetite for scrapping human rights act, says amnesty /

Published at 2015-11-08 18:43:39

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Poll finds only 3% of British adults believe David Cameron’s proposed bill of rights should be government’s top priorityOnly one in 10 people in Britain believe that scrapping the Human Rights Act should be a major government precedence, according to an opinion poll conducted by Amnesty International.
The obvious lack of popular support has emerged amid claims that David Cameron’s proposed new bill of rights may allow judges to consider Commonwealth law judgments as legal precedents.
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Source: theguardian.com