SIR – Conservative opposition to the Human Rights Act is not about liberty and justice but all about their hatred of everything European.

By quoting examples of apparently perverse judgements, David Cameron and Philip Davies are seeking an electoral advantage by undermining public confidence in the Act but without explaining how they would prevent the apparently undeserving from getting the better of our legal system.

The case Mr Davies is quoting (T&A, October 16) has in fact little to do with the Act. An individual sued Northumbria Police because he lost his job after they told his employer about a conviction for indecency involving a child some 20 years earlier.

In finding for the claimant, the judge said that the 1987 conviction was spent under the 1974 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and should not have been mentioned, although details of a more recent offence were properly passed on.

Mr Davies could argue that our laws should not apply to paedophiles and that they have no right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention. But to achieve this by repealing the Human Rights Act because it could be used by people of whom he disapproves is both dangerous and wrong.

Brian Holmans, Langley Road, Bingley