Blanket criminal records checks are not "compatible" with a key part of the Human Rights Act, the Court of Appeal has concluded.
The checks, known as CRBs, may prevent a persons right to a private or family life, a draft judgement has found.
The ruling was made based on the case of a 21-year-old man, who had been forced to reveal details of two police warnings given to him a decade earlier.
The Master of the Rolls, Lord Dyson, said the CRB system must be reformed.
The draft judgement was made on 21 December 2012, but was not revealed at the time amid concerns about its implications for the government over the CRB system.
CRBs require the automatic disclosure of all convictions and cautions to certain employers, regardless of their relevance to the job.
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Some info on CRB: Disclosure and Barring Service
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/dbs/
Always the same with things. All or nothing. There never seems to be a sensible approach.
It is as always a question of balance, the rights of potential victims not to be harmed are human rights too.
Would I mind a twenty year old convicted when she was eleven charged with criminal damage looking after my three year old probably not, one convicted aged eighteen of assault I probably would.