YourRights: Updated
The YourRights website (www.YourRights.ofg.uk) has now been fully updated. Liberty’s unique online guide to civil liberties and human rights provides detailed information about your rights in many areas of law in a clear and accessible format. But the law is constantly changing, so the task of keeping it updated is never ending. Over the past year, 24 expert barristers and solicitors from the leading chambers and law firms in the country have revised all 17 Chapters of YourRights, bringing it right up to date.
What is new?
The site has a brand new section, entitled News, which keeps you in touch with the latest important developments in human rights and civil liberties. It will also provide Case Studies which illustrate how human rights can affect you using practical examples.
What has changed?
In the 3 years since the last major update there have been more than 140 new Acts of Parliament. On top of that there have been countless new regulations, orders and rules, as well has hundreds of test cases, all of which have changed the law in some way.
Some of the changes have been very positive – there are now regulations prohibiting employers from discriminating against you on the grounds of your age or of your sexual orientation, and there is better protection for discrimination on the grounds of your religion. There is also a new Commission on Equality and Human Rights, which has specific statutory powers to champion human rights for all. Other changes are not such good news – laws restricting our rights to protest and to free speech, much greater police powers and greater intrusion into our privacy have made us significantly less free now than 3 years ago.
Why does it matter?
One of Liberty’s campaign priorities is to promote a culture of rights. This can only be done if everyone understands what human rights are, how rights affect them and what they can do where those rights are breached. The updated will help that understanding and so help to promote a culture of rights.
What is new?
The site has a brand new section, entitled News, which keeps you in touch with the latest important developments in human rights and civil liberties. It will also provide Case Studies which illustrate how human rights can affect you using practical examples.
What has changed?
In the 3 years since the last major update there have been more than 140 new Acts of Parliament. On top of that there have been countless new regulations, orders and rules, as well has hundreds of test cases, all of which have changed the law in some way.
Some of the changes have been very positive – there are now regulations prohibiting employers from discriminating against you on the grounds of your age or of your sexual orientation, and there is better protection for discrimination on the grounds of your religion. There is also a new Commission on Equality and Human Rights, which has specific statutory powers to champion human rights for all. Other changes are not such good news – laws restricting our rights to protest and to free speech, much greater police powers and greater intrusion into our privacy have made us significantly less free now than 3 years ago.
Why does it matter?
One of Liberty’s campaign priorities is to promote a culture of rights. This can only be done if everyone understands what human rights are, how rights affect them and what they can do where those rights are breached. The updated will help that understanding and so help to promote a culture of rights.
