GQhZstGAmTsnfjbAGAA napsal/a 11:20:09 08.01.2013
things like freedom of spceeh without explicitly saying everything about what that means? Wouldn't the anti-HRA people be even more against a law that told them exactly what had to be allowed?You compare the convention to a theft act but that's just it, the ECHR is a convention, not an act of law. (And whilst the HRA is an act, it's about bringing the ECHR into the realm of UK courts, rather than being the convention itself.) I don't follow your analogy the theft case it seems right to me that with some things, it
be up to a court to decide whether something is right or not, rather than them automatically following what the Government says.And given that the ECHR was written shortly after WW2, how is it supposed to be clear on something like email? It's not possible to explicitly cover everything.Having said that, I do agree it's a shame that some things are a bit vague, but more from the point that it seems to give too much leeway to Governments to get away with bad laws (e.g., Article 10 gives freedom of expression, but then waters it down by saying its subject to a long list of restrictions, such as for the protection of health or morals , which then leads to the Government getting away with criminalising possession of drawings, saying Article 10 doesn't apply as it's a moral issue). But I don't think it's a problem that the ECHR doesn't explicitly list everything.