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Commentators don't really see it the way she does. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15405377/Immigration-threat-equalities-watchdog-ECHR-protect-borders-mistake.html " [However] Ms Stephenson said the convention was 'really important' and leaving would weaken the rights everyone depends on. 'It's embedded in UK law through the Human Rights Act, and it provides rights that protect all of us,' she said. She gave examples such as the John Worboys black cab rapist case which saw the Supreme Court rule that police can be held liable for serious failures in their investigations, and another involving the threatened separation of an elderly couple when one needed to go into residential care. She said these showed how necessary the Human Rights Act was in incorporating the convention rights into UK law. Ms Stephenson said: 'These are all sorts of cases where most people would think that's the sort of thing we would want to see. Those are the sorts of rights we would want to have. 'And so I think leaving the European Convention is a mistake. It weakens the rights that all of us depend on.' She also noted a 'real risk of people using, quite often, cases where human rights arguments were made in court but were not successful'. Ms Stephenson noted research from the University of Oxford earlier this year which highlighted 'several high-profile examples of misleading coverage, including the so-called 'chicken nuggets' case – widely reported as the prevention of an individual's deportation on the basis of his child's dislike of foreign food, despite the decision not being based on this detail and having already been overturned'."

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Commentators don't really see it the way she does....[more]	LP12	11:48:15

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