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Apply the Human Rights Act retrospectively

Submitted by Lisa Ramos on Monday 21st July 2025

Published on Monday 8th September 2025

Current status: Closed

Closed: Sunday 8th March 2026

Signatures: 1,054

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abuse ~ failure ~ Human Rights ~ Human Rights Act ~ Justices ~ Retrospective ~ rights act ~ Victim ~ Years

Petition Action

Apply the Human Rights Act retrospectively

Petition Details

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

Additional Information

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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