Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act is a collection of essays written by leading experts in the field, which examines judicial decision-making under the UK's de facto Bill of Rights. The book focuses both on changes in areas of substantive law and the techniques of judicial reasoning adopted to implement the Act. The contributors therefore consider first general Convention and Human Rights Act concepts statutory interpretation, horizontal effect, judicial review, deference, the reception of Strasbourg case-law since they arise across all areas of substantive law. They then...
Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act is a collection of essays written by leading experts in the field, which examines judicial decision-m...
More than five years after the commencement of the UK's 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.' The book considers how the judiciary, Parliament, and the executive in the UK have performed in the new roles that the Human Rights Act requires them to play. 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 on public law,...
More than five years after the commencement of the UK's Human Rights Act 1998, it is timely to evaluate the Act's effectiveness. The focus of Making R...
Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act is a collection of essays written by leading experts in the field, which examines judicial decision-making under the UK's de facto Bill of Rights. The book focuses both on changes in areas of substantive law and the techniques of judicial reasoning adopted to implement the Act. The contributors therefore consider first general Convention and Human Rights Act concepts statutory interpretation, horizontal effect, judicial review, deference, the reception of Strasbourg case-law since they arise across all areas of substantive law. They then...
Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act is a collection of essays written by leading experts in the field, which examines judicial decision-m...