Human Rights Act (external link)

The United Kingdom signed and ratified the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). (external link) This Convention is a binding international agreement that the UK helped to draft and has sought to comply with for over half a century. European Convention on Human Rights. Since coming into force on 2 October 2000, the Human Rights Act has made rights from the ECHR (the Convention rights) enforceable in our own courts.

Liberty Guide to the Human Rights Act (external link)

Independent Living and the Human Rights Act 1998 (external link)
A paper commissioned by the Disability Rights Commission, the Social Care Institute for Excellence and the National Centre for Independent Living
from Camilla Parker, Legal & Policy Consultant, December 2004.