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Can someone explain how exactly the ECHR protects us? Or anyone for that matter? The ECHR doesn't make laws in our country, that's just not how government works here. And I don't think it makes laws anywhere else either. So what exactly does it do and how does it do it?
Genuinely interested if anyone can explain.
The European Court of Human Rights enforces the European Convention on Human Rights, which is an internationally treaty that was ratified in the UK in 1951 (with enthusiastic support from Churchill). It lists a bunch of fundamental rights.
In 1998, the UK passed the Human Rights Act, which provides these protections under domestic law, with the European court acting as a backstop.
So, yes, this is domestic law.