This time last year the media was full of talk about how the new Human Rights Act would totally change the English legal system after its implementation on 2 October.
The word, according to the tabloid press, was that the courts would be jammed with individuals seeking redress for infringements of their civil liberties, and in some quarters lawyers were almost salivating at the forecast deluge of work. A new set, Matrix Chambers, was even established seemingly on the back of the expected human rights boom and to a fanfare of publicity which further heightened the hype.
