Critically examining the case against the 1998 Human Rights Act /
"Since its inception in 1998 the Human Rights Act (HRA) has come in for a wide variety of criticism on legal, constitutional, political and cultural grounds. More recently, this criticism escalated significantly as politicians have seriously considered proposals for its abolition. This book exa...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Defining the case against the Human Rights Act / Frederick Cowell
- The Magna Carta's tainted legacy : historic justifications for a British bill of rights and the case against the Human Rights Act / Colin Murray
- England's terror of the French revolution : the historical roots of resistance to the rights of man and the case against the Human Rights Act / Bill Bowring
- An ingenious failure? the Human Rights Act and parliamentary sovereignty / Stephen J. Dimelow
- Dialogue or dictat? : the nature of the interaction between national courts and the European Court of Human Rights and how it influences criticism of the Human Rights Act / Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou
- Taking sovereignty seriously / Adam Tucker
- Terrorist threats, anti-terrorism, and the case against the Human Rights Act / Conor Gearty
- Deportation and the Human Rights Act : debunking the myths / Siobhan Lloyd
- Welfare, anti-austerity, and gender : new territory and new sources of hostility for the Human Rights Act / Laura Lammasniemi
- Moving away from common sense : the impact of the juridification of human rights / Nicolas Kang-Riou
- "Why should criminals have human rights? " : the underserving rights holder and the case against the Human Rights Act / Fredercik Cowell
- The failure of the Human Rights Act to construct a "rights culture" in the UK / Trudy Morgan.