Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act

[LAW]. Eds. Helen Fenwick, Gavin Phillipson, Roger Masterman. "Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Printed in the UK at University Press, Cambridge, 2007. First edition. English language. Hardcover with glossy pictorial boards. Nonfiction academic legal studies text in fourteen chapters with foreword, preface, tables, and index. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 32 oz. xxviii, 456 pp. Shelf-wear. Text clean. Near Fine. ISBN: 9780521876339. "A collection of essays written by leading experts in the field, which examines judicial decision-making under the UK's de facto Bill of Rights. The book focuses both on changes in areas of substantive law and the techniques of judicial reasoning adopted to implement the Act. The contributors therefore consider first general Convention and Human Rights Act concepts such as statutory interpretation, horizontal effect, judicial review, deference, and the reception of Strasbourg case-law since they arise across all areas of substantive law. They then proceed to examine not only the use of such concepts in particular fields of law (privacy, family law, clashing rights, discrimination, and criminal procedure), but also the modes of reasoning by which judges seek to bridge the divide between familiar common law and statutory doctrines and those in the Convention.".…