Human Rights Law and Practice by Lester, Pannick & Herberg – 3rd Edition

Description

During the parliamentary debates on the Human Rights Bill, Michael Fabri-cant MP told the House of Commons that he did ‘not believe that the Bill will have any impact on the United Kingdom’.
The third edition of this book records the substantial influence which the Human Rights Act 1998 has had, and continues to have, by giving effect in domestic law to the rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. The HRA 1998 has subjected the legal systems of the United Kingdom to ‘a fundamental process of review and, where necessary, reform by the judiciary’. It has meant that ‘long or well entrenched ideas may have to be put aside, sacred cows culled’. And, a particular problem for authors of a book on the impact of the legislation, ‘the development of our jurisprudence on the 1998 Act has only just begun. New problems are being revealed every week, if not every day’.
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Contents :-
Chapter 1 :    History and context
Chapter 2 :    Human Rights Act 1998
Chapter 3 :    Principles of interpretation
Chapter 4 :    The European Convention on Human Rights
Chapter 5 :    Scotland
Chapter 6 :    Northern Ireland
Chapter 7 :    Wales
Chapter 8 :    Parliamentary scrutiny of human rights
Chapter 9 :    International human rights codes and UK law
Appendix 1 :    Human Rights Act 1998
Index