PRESS RELEASE 12 March 2016 The British Institute of Human Rights to address York conference on Saturday The Deputy Director of the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) will be in York on Saturday to tell a conference that there is too much at stake to scrap the Human Rights Act (HRA), as the government wants to do. Sanchita Hosali will speak at the Liberal Democratic Party conference at the York Novotel Hotel on Saturday evening of her concern that with so much political spin and talk of legal technicalities, people may not realise just how much protection the HRA gives them, how it is working away quietly in the background in important ways, protecting people in everyday life and actually helping public bodies to do their work. They also may not realise that the government itself is held to account by the HRA so we should be very wary of any government plans to change the rules. The government has promised a formal consultation process over repealing the HRA, although no cl…

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