Tag: Human Rights Act
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HRA Watch: Reform, Repeal, Replace? Adam Tucker: The Anti-Democratic Turn in the Defence of the Human Rights Act
Editors’ note: The blog is inviting constitutional lawyers to comment on the UK Government’s proposal to repeal and replace the Human Rights Act. We continue with a post by Dr Adam Tucker, 50th Anniversary Research Lecturer in Law at the University of York. You can read the other contributions in this series here. Posts on the topic are…
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HRA Watch: Reform, Repeal, Replace? Janet McLean: Giving Effect to International Human Rights Obligations: Possible Alternatives?
Editors’ note: The blog is inviting constitutional lawyers to comment on the UK Government’s proposal to repeal and replace the Human Rights Act. We continue with a post by Janet McLean, Professor of Law and Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland. You can read the other contributions in this series here. Posts…
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HRA Watch: Reform, Repeal, Replace? Graham Gee and Grégoire Webber: Conventional Wisdom and the Human Rights Act
Editors’ note: The blog is inviting constitutional lawyers to comment on the UK Government’s proposal to repeal and replace the Human Rights Act. We continue with a post by Graham Gee, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and Dr Grégoire Webber, Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Queen’s University. You can read…
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HRA Watch: Reform, Repeal, Replace? Iain Jamieson: The repeal of the Human Rights Act and the Sewel Convention in Scotland
Editors’ note: The blog is inviting constitutional lawyers to comment on the UK Government’s proposal to repeal and replace the Human Rights Act. We continue with a post by Iain Jamieson, a retired UK and Scottish Government lawyer. You can read the other contributions in this series here. Posts on the topic are welcome. In his otherwise…
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HRA Watch: Reform, Repeal, Replace? Cormac Mac Amhlaigh: A Referendum on Repeal of the Human Rights Act? Why not?
Editors’ note: The blog is inviting constitutional lawyers to comment on the UK Government’s proposal to repeal and replace the Human Rights Act. We continue with a post by Dr Cormac Mac Amhlaigh, Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Edinburgh. You can read the other contributions in this series here. Posts on the topic are welcome.…
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Richard Cornes: Plan B – The Hawaii of the North Atlantic? Constitutional Futures 2015 – 2025 – A Vignette, and Comment
January 1, 2025 As the first day of 2025 dawns the people of the Kingdom of England wake looking forward to the arrival of their new passports, issued by the United States of… America. Governor Farage’s message is unusually sober, encouraging, almost apologetic: While we had hoped to make our future with the Commonwealth, despite…
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HRA Watch: Reform, Repeal, Replace? Mark Elliott: Could the Devolved Nations Block Repeal of the Human Rights Act and the Enactment of a New Bill of Rights?
Editors’ note: The blog is inviting constitutional lawyers to comment on the UK Government’s proposal to repeal and replace the Human Rights Act. We continue with a post by Dr Mark Elliott, Reader in Public Law at the University of Cambridge. You can read the other contributions in this series here. Posts on the topic are welcome. …
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HRA Watch: Reform, Repeal, Replace? Tobias Lock: Legal Implications of Human Rights Reform in the UK
Editors’ note: The blog is inviting constitutional lawyers to comment on the UK Government’s proposal to repeal and replace the Human Rights Act. We begin with a post by Dr Tobias Lock, Lecturer in EU Law at Edinburgh Law School. You can read the other contributions in this series here. Posts on the topic are welcome. The…
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Eirik Bjorge: Manning the Fogmachine of War: A Comment on the Report Clearing the Fog of Law
In the Policy Exchange report Clearing the Fog of Law: Saving Our Armed Forces from Defeat by Judicial Diktat, Richard Ekins, Jonathan Morgan, and Tom Tugendhat criticize the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg for not disapplying the rights of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in cases where British troops act abroad.…
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Event: What has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us: Is it time to repeal the Human Rights Act?
The Faculty of Law, BPP University invite you to a symposium on ‘What has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us: Is it time to repeal the Human Rights Act?’. This event will take place on Friday, 27 March 2015 from 17:00 to 19:00 at the Lecture Theatre, BPP University, Law School, Waterloo Branch, 137 Stamford Street, London, SE1…