Q&A Civil Liberties and Human Rights (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Fenwick, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859412769 ISBN 13: 9781859412763

Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish, 2001

Synopsis

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS SERIES The Q&A series is a publishing phenomenon, with total sales now exceeding well over 750,000 copies. This success has been achieved by following the Cavendish Publishing principles of providing students with the text they need, at a price they can afford. Each Q&A contains 50 questions on topics commonly found on exam papers, with comprehensive suggested answers. The titles are written by lecturers who are also examiners, so the student gains important insights into exactly what examiners are looking for in an answer. This makes them excellent revision and practice guides. The books emphasise a clear, logical approach to answering questions, concentrating on form as well as content. The books are organised by topic, with the introduction to each chapter outlining the main points of knowledge needed before questions in that chapter can be answered. Each answer also includes supplementary notes that highlight points of particular difficulty, or which refer to additional or alternative material.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Civil Rights: New Labour, Freedom and the Human Rights Act
Law in Focus Series
Series Editor: Professor Keith Ewing, King's College, London

This exciting new book in the Law in Focus Series centres on those areas of domestic civil liberties and human rights that are directly affected by the powers of state agents, mainly the police and the security and intelligence services. It examines the probable impact of the Human Rights Act on those powers, focusing especially on New Labour's own legislative programme. New Labour has put into place a new and very extensive legislative framework for counter terrorism and state surveillance, in the shape of the Terrorism Act 2000 and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. The author analyses the record of the Conservative Governments from 1979 to 1997 in those areas and compares it with the stance taken by the New Labour Government. In addition, the author considers the potentially immense effect in those areas of the Human Rights Act 1998, now fully in force. The author argues that although the Human Rights Act is New Labour legislation it is, ironically, likely to be used to temper the excesses of New Labour's 'state power' scheme.

This critical and challenging book:

· Analyses the extensive counter-terrorism provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000
· Examines the provisions of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 - the most comprehensive state surveillance scheme ever introduced by a UK government
· Considers key civil liberties issues currently arising from the powers of state agents
· Analyses the impact of the HRA 1998 on the established and the new legislation
· Reflects on New Labour's position on civil liberties and human rights

Helen Fenwick is Reader in Law at the University of Durham. She is an experienced and widely published researcher and writer in the field of public law generally, and teaches in the areas of civil liberties, media law and human rights.

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About the Author

Helen Fenwick, BA, LLB, is Professor of Law at the University of Durham. Howard Davis, BA, LLB, PhD, is Reader in law at Bournemouth University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1859412769
• ISBN 13: 9781859412763
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 400