HC Deb 25 November 1970 vol 807 c458

Mr. S. C. Silkin, supported by Mr. Jeremy Thorpe, Sir George Sinclair, Mr. W. T. Williams, Mr. Peter Archer, Mr. Ivor Richard, Mr. Alexander Lyon, Mr. Robert Maclennan, and Mr. Woodhouse, presented a Bill to provide for the appointment and functions of a Commission of Human Rights to promote the greater protection and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms and to provide the means of obtaining an effective remedy in respect of the infringement thereof; and for purposes connected therewith: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday, 2nd April and to be printed. [Bill 52.]