Brice Dickson

Human Rights in the UK Supreme Court

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Produktbeschreibung

How does the UK Supreme Court approach human rights law? This book provides the first comprehensive overview of human rights in the highest UK court, criticizing the failure of UK judges to develop the common law in sympathy with human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9780199697458
• ISBN-10: 0199697450
• Artikelnr.: 36964297

Autorenporträt

Brice Dickson is Professor of International and Comparative Law at Queen's University Belfast and a former Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. He has published widely on human rights and on judicial activism, particularly at the level of the House of Lords and Supreme Court.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: The Supreme Court and its Conception of Human Rights
* 3: Approaches to the Human Rights Act
* 4: The Right to Life
* 5: The Right not to be Ill-Treated
* 6: The Right to Liberty
* 7: The Right to a Fair Trial
* 8: The Right to a Private and Family Life
* 9: The Rights to Believe, Associate, and Marry
* 10: The Right to Free Speech
* 11: Equality and Freedom from Discrimination
* 12: The Right to Property
* 13: Conclusion
* Appendices
* 1: Law Lords and Justices since the enactment of the Human Rights Act
1998
* 2: Biographies of current Supreme Court Justices
* 3: Decisions by the House of Lords or Supreme Court considered by the
European Commision or Court of Human Rights
* Bibliography