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Explain How the Human Rights Act Incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into English Law First to explain how the European Convention on Human Rights is incorporated into English law we must understand what the European Convention on Human Rights actually is. When the European Convention on Human Rights was drafted the United Kingdom played a major role in the drafting of it and was the first country to ratify it. The European Convention on Human Rights is a treaty that countries signed which contains articles on basic human rights. Before these rights were incorporated into English Law the rights in the treaty had very little effect domestically in the United Kingdom. One effect it had was that if a defendant had exhausted all the available options domestically an appeal could go to the European Court on Human Rights in Strasbourg. This was of little use as it would not...

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