Ten years after the passing of the Human Rights Act 1998, it is timely to evaluate the Act's effectiveness. The focus of Making Rights Real is on the extent to which the Act has delivered on the promise to 'bring rights home'. To that end the book considers how the judiciary, parliament and the executive have performed in the new roles that the Human Rights Act requires them to play and the courts' application of the Act in different legal spheres. This account cuts through the rhetoric and controversy surrounding the Act, generated by its champions and detractors alike, to reach a measured assessment. The true impact in public law, civil law, criminal law and on anti-terrorism legislation are each considered. Finally, the book discusses whether we are now nearer to a new constitutional settlement and to the promised new 'rights culture'.
| ISBN: | 9781841133539 |
| Publication date: | 29th August 2008 |
| Author: | I Leigh, Roger Masterman |
| Publisher: | Hart Publishing an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 335 pages |
| Series: | Human Rights Law in Perspective |
| Genres: |
Public international law: human rights |
Ten years after the passing of the Human Rights Act 1998, it is timely to evaluate the Act's effectiveness. The focus of Making Rights Real is on the extent to which the Act has delivered on the promise to 'bring rights home'. To that end the book considers how the judiciary, parliament and the executive have performed in the new roles that the Human Rights Act requires them to play and the courts' application of the Act in different legal spheres. This account cuts through the rhetoric and controversy surrounding the Act, generated by its champions and detractors alike, to reach a measured assessment. The true impact in public law, civil law, criminal law and on anti-terrorism legislation are each considered. Finally, the book discusses whether we are now nearer to a new constitutional settlement and to the promised new 'rights culture'.
Making Rights Real features in the following genres: Public international law: human rights
Making Rights Real is available in Hardback
Making Rights Real was written by I Leigh, Roger Masterman and published by Hart Publishing an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
Making Rights Real has 335 pages
Yes it is part of Human Rights Law in Perspective series