Essential Rights

This legislation sets out the basic fundamental rights and freedoms which everyone in the UK is entitled to, these are found in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

The EHCR contains the following rights and freedoms: the right to lie, the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment, the prohibition of slavery and forced labour, the right to liberty and security, the right to a fair trial, the prohibition of retrospective criminal penalties, the right to a private family life, the freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the freedom of expression, the freedom f assembly and association, the right to marry, the right to an effective national remedy for breaches of these rights and the prohibition of discrimination in the protection of these rights.