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Is this new statute untouchable?

PUBLISHED September 16, 2004
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Could a future Tory government repeal the Human Rights Act? Last month, the shadow Home Secretary set up a review to consider just that.

But one of Britain's leading constitutional experts believes that it may prove impossible in practice for any government to abolish the law that has given our own judges power for the first time to rule on human rights.

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