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...law. However, in the UK, there is a law that protects the rights of people with learning disabilities in the same way it protects the rights of everyone else. This is the Human Rights Act 1998. This act means that if someone's rights have been breached, they can seek justice in a British court. It also means that all public bodies, like courts, police, local authorities,...

...law enforcement officers or judges, for example) do not tend to hold this bias towards assuming people are telling the truth. Instead, they hold a lie bias (Bond and De Paulo, 2006) which, it has been suggested, may be caused by a generalised suspicion resulting from their professions (Masip et al., 2005). In the next activity you can consider how your own responses might...