Principles of Human Rights Adjudication - Hardcover

Gearty, Conor

9780199270682: Principles of Human Rights Adjudication

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199270686 ISBN 13: 9780199270682

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2004

The Human Rights Act 1998 was one of the first pieces of legislation passed by New Labour. Some ministers beieve that it is the greatest thing that they have done, whereas others view it as a dangerous mistake. This volume explains what the Act is about, where it fits into Britain's constitutional tradition, and explores whether or not it has achieved its goals.

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About the Author:

C. A. Gearty is Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and Professor of Human Rights Law, London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a founder member of Matrix Chambers, from where he continues to practice law.

Review:

`.. . the second and third sections are focussed on the practical implementation of the core principles, and consider an impressive range of the domestic cases...Professor Gearty's ambitious undertaking - to reduce the complex jurisprudence surrounding the HRA to a handful of principles -
succeeds in provoking the reader to consider whether these themes can truly be identified in the HRA...it is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debates in this area; its attempt to construct a coherent approach to the HRA is a useful complement to the more detailed guides to ECHR rights.'
Simon Atrill, Cambridge Law Journal 65(1)

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