Flouting Convention
13 September 2012
Tax inspectors who serve notices for fraud could find themselves in breach of the Human Rights Act.
Despite first being ratified in March 1951, the European Convention of Human Rights was not codified into UK law until the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) last November. This makes it "unlawful for a public authority to act in any way that is incompatible with one or more of the convention rights" (clause 6). So courts will be obliged to interpret English law so that it...