Making Rights Real
The Human Rights Act in its First Decade
1st Edition
Published on 29. August 2008
264 pages
978-1-84731-451-2 (ISBN)
Description
Ten years after the passing of the Human Rights Act 1998, it is timely to evaluate the Act's effectiveness. The focus of Making Rights Real is on the extent to which the Act has delivered on the promise to 'bring rights home'. To that end the book considers how the judiciary, parliament and the executive have performed in the new roles that the Human Rights Act requires them to play and the courts' application of the Act in different legal spheres. This account cuts through the rhetoric and controversy surrounding the Act, generated by its champions and detractors alike, to reach a measured assessment. The true impact in public law, civil law, criminal law and on anti-terrorism legislation are each considered. Finally, the book discusses whether we are now nearer to a new constitutional settlement and to the promised new 'rights culture'.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84731-451-2 (9781847314512)
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08/2008
Hart Publishing
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Persons
Ian Leigh and Roger Masterman are, respectively, Professor of Law and Lecturer in Law at Durham University. Both are members of the Durham Human Rights Centre.
Content
Part I: The Architecture of the Human Rights Act
1 Great Expectations
2 Human Rights and the Political Process
3 The Courts (I): Sources of law
4 The Courts (II): Interpretation and Its Limits
5 The Co-operative Constitution?
Part II: Domestic Remedies for Violations of Convention Rights
6 Public Law Remedies: the Scope and Standard of Judicial Review under the HRA
7 Human Rights and the Criminal Trial
8 Human Rights and Counter-Terrorist Measures
9 'Horizontal rights'
10 Civil Law Remedies
11 Conclusion
1 Great Expectations
2 Human Rights and the Political Process
3 The Courts (I): Sources of law
4 The Courts (II): Interpretation and Its Limits
5 The Co-operative Constitution?
Part II: Domestic Remedies for Violations of Convention Rights
6 Public Law Remedies: the Scope and Standard of Judicial Review under the HRA
7 Human Rights and the Criminal Trial
8 Human Rights and Counter-Terrorist Measures
9 'Horizontal rights'
10 Civil Law Remedies
11 Conclusion
