How far should judges “update” our legal concepts, or should they root their interpretation in the historical understanding […]
Category Archive: Human rights
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 […]
Has anybody else noticed that the Bill of Rights Commission’s consultation is missing a question? In its consultation, […]
On 19 April 2011, the Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee of the Parliament of Victoria was tasked […]
I’ve been thinking recently about the relationship of the Human Rights Act with the existing principles of the […]
Lawyers and legal academics from outside the Channel Islands tend to know only three things about the legal […]
The Commission tasked with suggesting reforms to the structure of rights protection in the United Kingdom has sent a letter to […]
In the second week of August, Britain’s political classes were gripped by panic as a number of English […]
The binding nature of the Charter The life of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights began in December […]
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