The world is saturated with the normative discourse of rights. Rights-talk is to be found almost everywhere; in […]
Human Rights Act
It is probably an under-statement to say that the Human Rights Act 1998 is not Teresa May’s favourite […]
‘To produce one Bill of rights may be regarded as a misfortune. To produce eight, looks like carelessness’. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Commission tasked with suggesting reforms to the structure of rights protection in the United Kingdom has sent a letter to […]
The perception that the protections afforded by domestic courts under the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) should replicate […]
Last month’s SC ruling in Re McCaughey ([2011] UKSC 20) is the latest in an important line of […]
UK Constitutional Law Association 