Alison L Young

Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Human Rights Act 1998 is criticised for providing a weak protection of human rights. The principle of parliamentary legislative supremacy prevents entrenchment, meaning that courts cannot overturn legislation passed after the Act that contradicts Convention rights. This book investigates this assumption, arguing that the principle of parliamentary legislative supremacy is sufficiently flexible to enable a stronger protection of human rights, which can replicate the effect of entrenchment. Nevertheless, it is argued that the current protection should not be strengthened. If correctly interpreted, the Human Rights Act can facilitate democratic dialogue that enables courts to perform their proper correcting function to protect rights from abuse, whilst enabling the legislature to authoritatively determine contestable issues surrounding the extent to which human rights should be protected alongside other rights, interests and goals of a particular society. This understanding of the Human Rights Act also provides a different justification for the preservation of Dicey's conception of parliamentary sovereignty in the UK Constitution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847314734
• Artikelnr.: 52925615

Autorenporträt

Alison L Young is the Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Photo courtesy of Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

1 INTRODUCTION I. Defining Parliamentary Sovereignty: Dicey's Conception
II. The Compatibility of the Human Rights Act 1998 with Dicey's Theory of
Parliamentary Sovereignty III. Sovereignty Explored IV. In Defence of the
Human Rights Act 1998 V. In Defence of Dicey 2 INTERPRETATION AND IMPLIED
REPEAL I. Continuing Parliamentary Legislative Supremacy and the Doctrine
of Implied Repeal: the Orthodox Account II. The Narrow Scope of Implied
Repeal III. How to give Human Rights an 'Entrenchment Effect' IV.
Conclusion 3 REDEFINITION AND THE RULE OF RECOGNITION I. Continuing and
Self-embracing Parliamentary Legislative Supremacy II. Manner and Form and
Redefinition III. Methods of Entrenchment IV. Conclusion 4 DEMOCRACY AND
RIGHTS I. Dicey and Democracy II. Constitutional Rights III. Democratic
Dialogue IV. Conclusion 5 DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998
I. Models of Dialogue II. Justification of Democratic Dialogue III.
Justifications of the Human Rights Act 1998 IV. Dialogue and Institutional
Competences V. Towards a Theory of Adjudication VI. Conclusion 6 A THEORY
OF ADJUDICATION I. The Current Legal Test II. A New Theory of Adjudication
III. Conclusion 7 CONCLUSION I. A Modest Defence of Continuing
Parliamentary Legislative Supremacy II. Conclusion