Making rights real : the human rights act its first decade
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Making rights real : the human rights act its first decade
(Human rights law in perspective / general editor, Colin Harvey, v. 15)
Hart, 2008
- : hbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-314) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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'.
Table of Contents
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
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