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The question of ‘human rights’ has necessarily been brought into the debate on disclosure of ‘non conviction information’. In particular, the rights expounded in the European Convention on Human Rights that were brought into UK law by the 1998 Human Rights Act. Article 6 (the right to a fair and open trial) and Article 8 (the right to privacy) of the Convention and the concept of proportionality have been slowly integrated into decision-making on the disclosure of ‘non conviction information’. This integration is an on-going matter subject to continuing debate. What had seemed a fairly simple decision back in the 1980s on what ‘non conviction information’ to release is now realised to be a far more complex matter.
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Thomas, T., Bennett, K. (2019). Human Rights. In: Employment Screening and Non-Conviction Information. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28711-5_6
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