Apply the Human Rights Act retrospectively

I think the Government should legislate for full retrospective application of the Human Rights Act.

1,027 Signatures

Status
Open
Opened
Monday 8th September 2025
Last 24 hours signatures
1
Signature Deadline
Sunday 8th March 2026
Estimated Final Signatures: 1,082

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I believe this could potentially allow victims of sexual exploitation, whose cases weren’t properly investigated, to obtain justice for the failure to investigate, where this was before the introduction of the Human Rights Act.

Victims of abuse don’t always come forward until many years later and deserve justice.


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