Human Rights Actdelayjudicial reviewnon-convention rightsnon-public authoritiesstandingThe Human Rights Act 1998 confers upon the courts important powers of control over unjustified interferences with fundamental rights. In the exercise of such powers, the court is entrusted with the vital responsibility ...
This article will consider rights to receive and express information and ideas from the perspective of the researcher, the researched, the researcher's institution and the wider community. It will also consider how the courts will resolve the inevitable conflicts between these rights. It does not ...
The Human Rights Act: Principle and Practice This article is a substantially abridged version of a lecture delivered by Lord Irvine at Durham University and published in Public Law in the summer of 2003. It appears here with the kind permission of Sweet and Maxwell....
Article 2 of the First Protocol (A2P1) of the European Convention onHuman Rights(ECHR) and Article 28(1) of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This essay will assess the effect of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) in protecting the right to education in England. It is...
One of Canada’s central rights documents is theCanadian Human Rights Act, which protects Canadians’ against discriminated against in areas of federal jurisdiction. This article presents the purpose and history of theAct, and provides an overview of its key provisions, application and administration...
In the UK, children and young people are afforded protection by two important pieces of legislation: the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Human Rights Act 1998. There have been plentiful and varied challenges involving children and young people, in particular under Article 8 of...
Article 1 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” I believe that with the collective efforts of all...
In 1998, the Human Rights Act (HRA),1 which incorporated the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) into British law, was passed by the United Kingdom Parliament, giving British citizens a form of protection taken for granted in virtually every Commo
Our world has witnessed significant shifts, transformations, and evolution in government systems, the balance of power among nations, economics, the rights of men and women, and social structures and relationships over the past 500 years. However...Read Article » ...
Yesterday, Frances Lawrence spoke about the plague of knife crime, trying to come to terms with her husband's death and how Chindamo had used the Human Rights Act to his benefit. "In Article 2 of the Human Rights Act my husband had the right to life," she told Radio 4's Today pr...