Rejected petition Petition to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights

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This petition recognises and supports human-rights but believes that the current system has been abused and manipulated, contrary to the rule-of-law, and other valued British democratic values.

This petition calls for the UK government to repeal the Human Rights Act (1998) and withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (1950).

It supports the creation of a British Bill of Rights and the repatriation of powers to UK courts as opposed to those in Strasbourg.

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 5 August 2011
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