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The Human Rights Act also helps us challenge big injustices. Article 2, which enshrines the right to life, helped the Hillsborough families get a wide-ranging inquest into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the 96."Sometimes, unfortunately, it's only in your darkest hour you come to see quite how important your human rights are," Logan points out. "The Human Rights Act has helped a lot of families find out what happened to loved ones and get the justice they deserve."Couldn't a new British Bill of Rights lay out a similar set of protections for us? The vague promise of a new act, one detached from the wide-ranging ECHR principles, is not reassuring. The European Court of Human Rights only makes a judgement when something is "incompatible" with those principles, then lets the government decide how to fix it. But without the European Court acting as an ultimate arbiter, many of the victories mentioned above would not have happened.READ: Are the Tories Actually Looking Out for Britain's Workers?
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