Delivering Rights: How the Human Rights Act is Working and for Whom (The Justice Series - Putting Rights into Practice) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184113287X ISBN 13: 9781841132877

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

As is well known the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) is a constitutional innovation,but can its scheme deliver? This timely and provocative book probes the extent to which the HRA is guaranteeing rights and whether it is transforming the legal landscape. This companion text to Understanding Human Rights Principles (Hart Publications 2001) is the culmination of a six-month project where key elements of the HRA were analysed and subjected to detailed scrutiny by expert practitioners and academics. The result is seven chapters of the highest quality which examine the following subjects including the reach of the Act and its jurisdictional scope and how to strike the balance under the HRA between interpretation and incompatibility. Two chapters look at remedies for breach of human rights. The first under the HRA and the second using Community law principles. The text then goes on to consider assessment of fact, due deference, and the wider impact of the Human Rights Act in administrative law. It then asks what is public power? And looks at the courts’ approach to the public authority definition under the Act. Finally access to court under the Human Rights Act is examined including standing, legal assistance and third party intervenors. The book’s contributors are the leading experts in the field including Dinah Rose, Nathalie Lieven, Janet Kentridge, Kate Markus, Richard Clayton QC, Peter Roth QC, and Tim Owen QC. It provides an unparalleled examination of the scheme of the Human Rights Act and its component parts and it is of direct relevance to the practitioner and academic.

About this title

About the Authors

Jeffrey Jowell KC is Professor of Public Law and Dean of the Faculty of Laws at University College London and a practising Barrister at Blackstone Chambers.

Dr Jonathan Cooper was born in 1965 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and educated in Cannock, Staffordshire. He served in the Merchant Navy and in the Royal Air Force, before undertaking an MLitt and PhD from Glasgow University in battlefield and conflict archaeology. His previous work includes the first in-depth study of his hometown battle at Linlithgow Bridge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184113287X
• ISBN 13: 9781841132877
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Jowell Jeffrey