Human Rights Act ??? - Page 2

Margaret Pilkington · 08-05-2005, 10:57

Tinks.......I still have the Mail article......do you want me to scan it and send it to you ?
There is another article in todays Mail on Sunday.......a criminal with infectious TB who won't be treated. The Police had to let him go because it was too dangerous to question him......they risked getting the disease......he has been hospitalsied several times but has never completed the course of treatment.......this may make the TB resistant to treatment in the future. Why can't they force him to have treatment ........? Yeah, you guessed it. It infringes his human rights. His identity cannot be disclosed because of the right to confidentiality.

lettie · 08-05-2005, 15:24

You may have already added the right to marry in relation to gay marriages Tinks. I used it in one of my assignments to prove a point. We all have a right to marry the person of our choice once we reach a certain age, but some institutions ie the church will not allow gay marriages. Good luck with your essay.

WillowTheWhisp · 08-05-2005, 15:59

I was going to mention the TB story in today's Mail on Sunday but you beat me to it Margaret. Lettie's point about gay marriages leads me to another interesting point too, what happens when you've got someone who has had a sex change? They may be physically female but legally male or vice versa. Where are their human rights when it comes to choosing a marriage partner?

Tinkerbelle · 08-05-2005, 20:02

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Tinks.......I still have the Mail article......do you want me to scan it and send it to you ?

Please Margaret if you would, Thanks.

Willow and Lettie I've added the gay marriage but the transexual part was very sketchy.

mez · 08-05-2005, 20:17

good luck tinks, hope you pass.

Margaret Pilkington · 08-05-2005, 20:27

Tinks I will do my best......don't know just how it will turn out.

Tinkerbelle · 08-05-2005, 20:44

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Originally Posted by mez

good luck tinks, hope you pass.

Cheers mez

Don't let it cause you any problems Margaret I know what these PCs are like when they decide they want to play games with us mere mortals

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Margaret Pilkington · 08-05-2005, 21:27

Tinks.......I have scanned the article but the file is too large to post on here.
If you PM me your e-mail addy I will send it to you that way.
The quality isn't the best and I have had to do some creative folding to get all the text on.

An alternative if you don't want me to send you the scanned article would be to check if the public Library has a copy of The Daily mail from Saturday.

Margaret Pilkington · 08-05-2005, 21:32

I spent ages trying to get the article to attach.......I thought it was me doing something wrong.

Margaret Pilkington · 08-05-2005, 21:34

I thought I had got this a
'attachment ' business cracked!

Tinkerbelle · 08-05-2005, 21:36

I PMed you with my e-mail Margaret

Margaret Pilkington · 08-05-2005, 21:44

It is on it's way to you......may take a while to land as it is 1.6 Mb. It has been scanned with Norton Anti-virus too.

WillowTheWhisp · 08-05-2005, 21:49

Did you send today's (Sunday's) too? I thought that was a classic.

Good luck with it Tinkerbelle.

lettie · 09-05-2005, 17:50

Tinks, another example of the Human Rights Act gone awry are the cases of court ordered Caesarian Sections. There have been a few in the last 5 years and all have been reported in newspapers, so you should be able to google them. Basically women have been forced to have sections due to problems in labour/pregnancy where fears for the life of the unborn child have prevailed over the woman's right to refuse the op. The fetus has no rights in British law until it is born, but somehow the courts and doctors have managed to override the woman's wishes and enforce an operation. These are very interesting cases, as they show how the law can be bent to suit. Many of these women have been deemed to have phobias of needles etc therefore classed as psychiatric disorders and deemed incompetent to make a rational decision, even though the women knew that their babies would in all likelyhood die, or they would die themselves without the op. These women had all the information and knew what the outcome of their refusal would be but still chose to refuse treatment. The law treat them as incompetent even though they were intelligent women.

Also look into cases of enforced blood transfusion for Jehova's witnesses or children of Jehova's witnesses. You should find something interesting there too.

Sparkologist · 09-05-2005, 18:09

Maybe you could discuss the human rights of burglars if they were to break into someones house and get caught in the act, resulting in some summary barrack-room justice being dished out. Once a burglar breaks into a property, do they abrogate their human rights? you could discuss it with referrence to the Tony martin case; the Norfolk farmer who collared two scrotes breaking into his secluded farmhouse. much has been written about this case, as it had a very high media profile, and a massive public campaign was instigated to free him from his prison sentence.