Product Description: Senior judges and politicians increasingly question the role of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights. Some call for a reconsideration of the influence of transnational courts in the legal life of the UK, while others argue for a repeal of the Human Rights Act in favour of a British Bill of Rights...read more

Product Description: Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights sets out a practical and theoretical overview of the future of human rights within the United Kingdom and beyond. A number of internationally renowned scholars respond to David Kennedy's contribution 'The International Human Rights Movement: Still Part of the Problem?' from a range of different perspectives...read more

Product Description: In this completely revised and updated second edition, the judicial interpretation and application of the UK's Human Rights Act 1998 is comprehensively examined and analyzed. Part I concerns key procedural issues including: the background to the Act * the relationship between UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights * the definition of victim and public authority * determining incompatibility including deference and proportionality * the impact of the Act on primary legislation * damages and other remedies for the violation of Convention rights...read more

Product Description: Textbook on Civil Liberties and Human Rights provides a straightforward and stimulating account of this fascinating area of law which has proved popular with lecturers and students.This essential textbook covers all the main topics taught on undergraduate civil liberties and human rights modules...read more

Product Description: Unlocking Human Rights will ensure that you grasp the main concepts of this fascinating and dynamic area of law with ease, providing you with an indispensible foundation in the subject. The book explains in detailed, yet straightforward, terms: • The nature of human rights• European Convention on Human Rights• Human Rights Act• Right to life• Torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment• Public order, police powers, freedom of association and assembly• Right to a fair trial• Freedom of expression• Privacy, private life and marriage• Right to liberty and security• Prohibition of discrimination• Terrorism• Freedom of thought, conscience and religion• Property rights• Contemporary themes of UN human rights review of the UK, constitutional reform, and security The book provides practical knowledge to help you apply the understanding of these themes and explains: • Rights concepts and language• How the Convention and Human Rights Act operate• Ways in which applicants use the procedures to remedy injustices when domestic UK law has let them down• What kinds of protection are available to everyone within the UK’s jurisdiction• How a balance is struck between the need to protect many different kinds of right in the modern world, with the equally important need to protect everyone from external threats• Why it is vital that essential freedoms of thought, conscience, religion, association, assembly and expression are protected• How the ‘rights’ which everyone claims as their own have to be balanced against the qualifications or restrictions that are imposed to protect other people’s interests This new volume is fully up-to-date with the latest changes in the law and includes discussion of essential developments, including the Protection of Freedom Act 2012, Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and the Succession to the Crown Act 2013...read more

Product Description: Peter Kerr, who has a nose for both the absurd and the shocking, develops his concerning arguments about the gradual erosion of our human rights, particularly in Great Britain and the United States. He backs up his arguments with plenty of examples, including legislation introduced under the American presidents since Reagan, including Barack Obama...read more

Product Description: Key Facts Key Cases: Human Rights will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Human Rights module with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for: What human rights apply in the United Kingdom, Europe and other parts of the world The European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act How the various rights, freedoms and prohibitions which now pervade English law operate How rights affect important issues including discrimination, public order, police powers and terrorism How human rights operate in the global and other continental regional contexts Key Facts Key Cases is the essential series for anyone studying law at LLB, postgraduate and conversion courses...read more

Product Description: By providing enforceable remedies for breaches of Convention Rights in domestic courts, and in allowing judges to scrutinise parliamentary legislation on human rights grounds, the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act 1998 marked a sea-change in the relationships between the individual and the state, and between the courts and the political branches of government, as they had been traditionally understood...read more

Product Description: This innovative book examines the effectiveness of international human rights law, through the case study of domestic violence. Domestic violence is an issue that affects vast numbers of women throughout all nations of the world, but as it takes place between private individuals it does not come within the ambit of the traditional interpretation of human rights law...read more

Product Description: The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the exercise of executive discretion remains an important aspect of criminal justice in many areas...read more

Product Description: Examining the erosion of people's democratic rights and the potential catastrophic dangers of neglecting civil liberties, this bookexplores the endemic danger of the enlarged power of the state and the central role of Government in undermining personal freedoms through the use of state force in the name of the protection of security...read more

Product Description: This book critically examines the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and evaluates its impact from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book includes both a domestic and international analysis of the effectiveness of the HRA, and also considers possible future developments in policy and practise as well as contemplating the potential for a British Bill of Rights...read more

Product Description: What is the UK's Human Rights Act? What is its relationship to the common law? Is there a need to invent new doctrines of UK public law to accommodate the Act? Will it lead to the extinction of established doctrines? What should be the effect of the Act on the structure of public law as a whole? Remarkably, 10 years after the Act came into effect, these questions remain unanswered...read more

Product Description: The Blackstone's Guide Series delivers concise and accessible books covering the latest legislative changes and amendments. Published soon after enactment, they offer expert commentary by leading names on the scope, extent and effects of the legislation, plus a full copy of the Act itself...read more