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Claim move towards UK Bill of Rights is out of step from reality

THE Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has said that a move towards a UK Bill of Rights is out of step with reality.

Responding to a report by the UK Commission on a Bill of Rights, Professor Alan Miller, the SHRC chairman, said: "The report, although predictably inconclusive, reveals the Commission as out of touch with the progressive direction of travel of human rights protection in Scotland and in Europe, and out of step with reality.

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