19 February 2021 Today, we held our fifth and final Human Rights Act Upskilling Session! We set up these Upskilling Sessions to support people, campaigning groups and public officials to learn more about what the Human Rights Act (HRA) is, what it means for you, your group or organisation and how you can act to protect these rights and our HRA. Specifically, our sessions aimed to upskill and build confidence in the HRA to help as many people and groups as possible to write responses to the Human Rights Act Review (the Review) call for evidence, and the Joint Committee of Human Rights’ Inquiry into the Review and its own call for evidence. The Review is looking at 20 years of the HRA, but the Review’s call for evidence asks narrow legal questions which focus on the HRA in the courts and miss the importance of the HRA in everyday life. We know the HRA is important to lots of people in their interactions with public bodies every single day, in all the small places close to home s…

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