How are rights and freedoms best protected? The American model of constitutional protection and judicial review has been adopted in a number of countries, most recently in the United Kingdom. Increasingly, rights are the province of the judiciary. But how much judicial review do we need? How do we resolve conflicts between liberty, equality, and democracy? What are group rights, and how strong is their claim to protection? What guidance can the decisions of the UN Human Rights Committee provide? These are some of the questions discussed in this collection of essays, which explores a range of...

There are now a number of statutes in different parts of the world that offer non-constitutional protection for human rights through certain mechanisms, such as strong interpretive obligations, quasi-tort actions, and obligations on legislatures to consider whether statutes are felt to breach human rights obligations. These mechanisms exist in New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, the Australian Capital Territory, and Victoria. This book considers the jurisprudence that has developed in these various jurisdictions relating to these mechanics for the promotion of human rights. Relevant case laws from...