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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Other Authors: Cowell, Frederick (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.