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The human rights provisions of the Convention have now been brought into domestic law by the [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/contents Human Rights Act 1998], so violations of human rights law could be litigated in the domestic courts of the UK.
The human rights provisions of the Convention have now been brought into domestic law by the [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/contents Human Rights Act 1998], so violations of human rights law could be litigated in the domestic courts of the UK.
==Forward into the 21st century==
Welch solictor [[Christopher P. Price]] led us into the 21st century with an essay highly critical of child non-therapeutic circumcision in every form.<ref name="price1999">{{REFbook
|last=Price
|first=Christopher
|author-link=Christopher P. Price
|year=1999
|title=Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/price2/
|work=Male and Female Circumcision, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice
|editor=Denniston GC, Hodges FM and Milos MF eds.
|edition=
|volume=
|chapter=
|pages=
|location=New York
|publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
|isbn=
|quote=
|accessdate=2021-09-07
|note=
}}</ref>


==The guidance of the British Medical Association==
==The guidance of the British Medical Association==