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ECHR and it's background
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- 1ECHR= What's the ECHR and it's background??The ECHR stands for the European Convention of Human Rights. It was formed after the WWII by Winston Churchill and other countries to help make sure that the atrocities of that war never occur again.
- 2What are residual freedoms??Citizen’s rights in the UK have traditionally been seen as residual. What you are not allowed to do is set out by law: What you can do is not set out. Residual freedoms are easy to remove and difficult to enforce in court.
- 3Any case that occurred pre- Human RightsMalone v MetropolitanPolice Comissioner [1979]= phone tapping (right to privacy). There was no law preventing this at that time.
- 4State which section in the Equality Act 2010 on the grounds of sex discriminationSection 11 of the Equality Act 2010 states that: "a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a man or a woman"
- 5Name a key case that supports discrimination on the grounds of sex.Gill v El Nino (1983)- Only men were served at the bar. Women were asked to be seated and given table service. The Court of Appeal held that although table service provided an adequate alternative, women were treated less favourably because, unlike men, they were denied a choice.
- 6State which section of the Equality Act 2010 is on the grounds of RaceRace is Section 9 of the Equality Act 2010 states that: (1) Race includes- colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins.
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