The hon. Gentleman says very assuredly that action under the Human Rights Act prevented or stopped those abuses. Does he not think that perhaps the benefits of a free press and the public outrage that those abuses generated had rather more to do with those bureaucracies changing their opinion?
Human Rights
Proceeding contribution from
Julian Lewis
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 19 February 2007.
It occurred during Adjournment debate on Human Rights.
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