It is probably an under-statement to say that the Human Rights Act 1998 is not Teresa May’s favourite […]
Category Archive: Human rights
Amending the text of the Australian Constitution has been described as a ‘labour of Hercules’. It has been […]
On 1 January 2012, a new Constitution (or Fundamental Law) took effect in the Central European state of […]
Surprise – or no surprise at all? The European Court of Human Rights has decided not to precipitate […]
The practice of judges engaging in a transnational judicial conversation about constitutional rights, by referring to the judgments […]
‘To produce one Bill of rights may be regarded as a misfortune. To produce eight, looks like carelessness’. […]
On the 26th October, the subject of website blocking was in the news in two apparently very different […]
How far should judges “update” our legal concepts, or should they root their interpretation in the historical understanding […]
Helen Fenwick: The Conservative anti-ECHR stance and a British Bill of Rights: rhetoric and reality.
Conservative policy on the Human Rights Act: the role of the Bill of Rights’ Commission and the aim […]
What considerations can justify a court overturning a recent constitutional precedent? This constitutional perennial is once again in […]
