The United Kingdom's Statutory Bill of Rights

Zusatztext As indicated in the introduction, The United Kingdomâs Statutory Bill of Rights: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives 'make[s] a significant contribution to assessing the lasting impact of the United Kingdomâs human rights project, and towards shaping the nature of the debates yet to come'. Informationen zum Autor Roger Masterman is Reader in Law at Durham Law School and Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre. Ian Leigh is Professor of Law at Durham University. He is a member of the Durham Human Rights Centre and the Durham Global Security Institute. He has taught at several UK universities and held visiting appointments at the universities of Otago, Florida, Virginia, Melbourne and at Osgoode Hall Law School. Klappentext This book examines the effects of the Human Rights Act on the constitutional landscape, its effect on constitutional doctrine, and the reasoning used by judges in giving it effect. The authors study the Act's relationship with other bills of rights and how the Human Rights Act experience can inform the debate over a UK Bill of Rights. Zusammenfassung 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. Despite the undeniable practical importance of the Human Rights Act, widespread political and popular scepticism over the nature of rights adjudication and the relationship between human rights laws and-for instance-measures designed to combat terrorism and crime, has prevented the Human Rights Act from being seen as an established and essential part of our constitutional structures. This uncertainty has not however prevented the Human Rights Act from exerting significant constitutional influence within the United Kingdom, within the framework provided by the European Convention and European Court of Human Rights, and beyond. This edited collection of essays therefore seeks to chart the lasting constitutional impact of the Human Rights Act at a point when its political future is far from assured. To that end, chapters examine the relationships between the Human Rights Act and domestic constitutional doctrine, with the Convention's enforcement bodies at Strasbourg and with statutory bills of rights in other common law jurisdictions. Further, the collection goes on to examine the permanence of changes initiated in domestic legal reasoning and process-including to judicial technique and in advocacy-before finally turning to examine how the experience of the Human Rights Act might influence the future development of a Bill of Rights for the United Kingdom. 1. The United Kingdom's Human Rights Project in Constitutional and Comparative Perspective ; PART I-THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT IN CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ; 2. The Human Rights Act, Dialogue and Constitutional Principles ; 3. The Continuation of Politics, by other means: Judicial Dialogue under the Human Rights Act 1998 ; 4. Back to the Future?: Judges, Politicians and the Constitution in the New Scotland ; PART II-DOMESTIC PROTECTIONS WITHIN A EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK ; 5. Deconstructing the Mirror Principle ; 6. From monologue to dialogue-the relationship between UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights ; PART III-A PERMANENT REVOLUTION IN LEGAL REASONING? ; 7. Human Rights and Judicial Technique ; 8. The Impact of the Human Rights Act on Advocacy ; PART IV-THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT ON THE INTERNATIONAL PLANE ; 9. Human Rights and Legislative Supremacy ; 10. Australian Bills of Rights and the "New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism" ; 11. Cross fertilisation of constitutional ideas: The Relationship between the Human Rights Act 1998 and the New Ze...

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Roger Masterman is Reader in Law at Durham Law School and Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre.

Ian Leigh is Professor of Law at Durham University. He is a member of the Durham Human Rights Centre and the Durham Global Security Institute. He has taught at several UK universities and held visiting appointments at the universities of Otago, Florida, Virginia, Melbourne and at Osgoode Hall Law School.

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This book examines the effects of the Human Rights Act on the constitutional landscape, its effect on constitutional doctrine, and the reasoning used by judges in giving it effect. The authors study the Act's relationship with other bills of rights and how the Human Rights Act experience can inform the debate over a UK Bill of Rights.

Résumé
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. Despite the undeniable practical importance of the Human Rights Act, widespread political and popular scepticism over the nature of rights adjudication and the relationship between human rights laws and-for instance-measures designed to combat terrorism and crime, has prevented the Human Rights Act from being seen as an established and essential part of our constitutional structures. This uncertainty has not however prevented the Human Rights Act from exerting significant constitutional influence within the United Kingdom, within the framework provided by the European Convention and European Court of Human Rights, and beyond. This edited collection of essays therefore seeks to chart the lasting constitutional impact of the Human Rights Act at a point when its political future is far from assured. To that end, chapters examine the relationships between the Human Rights Act and domestic constitutional doctrine, with the Convention's enforcement bodies at Strasbourg and with statutory bills of rights in other common law jurisdictions. Further, the collection goes on to examine the permanence of changes initiated in domestic legal reasoning and process-including to judicial technique and in advocacy-before finally turning to examine how the experience of the Human Rights Act might influence the future development of a Bill of Rights for the United Kingdom.

Contenu

• 1: Roger Masterman and Ian Leigh: The United Kingdom's Human Rights Project in Constitutional and Comparative Perspective

• Part I-The Human Rights Act in Constitutional Perspective

• 2: Gavin Phillipson: The Human Rights Act, Dialogue and Constitutional Principles

• 3: C.R.G. Murray: The Continuation of Politics, by other means: Judicial Dialogue under the Human Rights Act 1998

• 4: Aidan O'Neill QC: Back to the Future?: Judges, Politicians and the Constitution in the New Scotland

• Part II-Domestic Protections within a European Framework

• 5: Roger Masterman: Deconstructing the Mirror Principle

• 6: Merris Amos: From monologue to dialogue-the relationship between UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights

• Part III-A Permanent Revolution in Legal Reasoning?

• 7: Sir Jack Beatson: Human Rights and Judicial Technique

• 8: Sir Rabinder Singh: The Impact of the Human Rights Act on Advocacy

• Part IV-The Human Rights Act on the International Plane

• 9: Sir Anthony Mason: Human Rights and Legislative Supremacy

• 10: Simon Evans and Julia Watson: Australian Bills of Rights and the "New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism"

• 11: Petra Butler: Cross fertilisation of constitutional ideas: The Relationship between the Human Rights Act 1998 and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
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