ABSTRACT
The Government’s Act to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR)1 is the most significant human rights reform in the 60 years that Liberty has been in existence. For the first time, positive rights such as privacy and family life, freedom of expression and assembly, the right to a fair trial, freedom from arbitrary arrest, and freedom from discrimination will be enshrined in domestic law, and those who claim that their fundamental human rights have been breached will no longer necessarily have to endure the expensive and lengthy process of going to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
