Tag: Human Rights Commission
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David Mead: Real-ising Human Rights: On The Ground Protection Under The HRA Through Citizenship Education
Floundering for an angle as a member of a panel looking at the way forward after the Bill of Rights Commission report (organised by the Human Rights Centre at Durham), I latched onto issues relating to effective protection and promoting a positive human rights culture. This post is on one aspect of that, something that…
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Helen Fenwick: The Report of the Bill of Rights Commission: disappointing Conservative expectations or fulfilling them?
The Commission delivered its Report – A UK Bill of Rights? – The Choice Before Us – to the Government in December 2012. It is an odd document, dominated by the lack of agreement in the Commission as to the role that any human rights’ instrument in Britain should play. That was unsurprising since at…
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Ryan Goss: What is the Bill of Rights Commission’s ‘strong argument’?
This week’s report from the Commission on a Bill of Rights was entitled ‘The Choice Before Us’. In framing that choice, a majority of the Commission concluded that, ‘on balance, there is a strong argument in favour of a UK Bill of Rights’. In this post, I explore and test that ‘strong argument’ as it…
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Colm O’Cinneide: The Commission on a Bill of Rights: Playing On Even While the Goalposts Have Shifted?
The Commission on a Bill of Rights has reported. As expected, its members did not reach agreement on a common set of conclusions. Seven of the nine commissioners took the view that there were ‘strong arguments in favour of a UK Bill of Rights’, on the basis that it would represent a ‘fresh beginning’ and…
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Cormac Mac Amhlaigh: Whether You Agree With its Conclusions Or Not, the Bill of Rights Commission Hit On An Important Issue For Human Rights and the Future of Britain.
So the Bill of rights Commission has produced its final report after a 21-month long study into the state of human rights in British law, tackling the major question of whether Britain needs a Bill of Rights. The reaction from the legal fraternity has been marked by, well, slight disappointment. The biggest news of the…
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David Feldman: The European Court of Human Rights and the UK – Why Should Strasbourg Decide On Our Human Rights?
The date set for publication of the report of the Commission on a Bill of Rights approaches. The Commission was established to consider whether the UK should have a Bill of Rights, and, if so, what it should contain and how it should relate to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental…
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Mark Elliott and Christopher Forsyth: A right to administrative justice?
In its second consultation paper, the Commission on a Bill of Rights asks whether a UK bill of rights should contain a right to administrative justice. This is a question that should be approached with considerable caution. It is not self-evident that inclusion of administrative justice in a bill of rights would protect administrative justice…
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News: British Academy Report on Human Rights and the UK Constitution
Human rights law has been the subject of considerable controversy over the past few years. A new report, written by Colm O’Cinneide, Reader in Law at UCL, and released on September 27 by the British Academy Policy Centre, aims to clarify the central issues at stake in this debate. The report, Human Rights and the UK…
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Commission on a UK Bill of Rights Publishes Second Consultation Paper
The Commission on a UK Bill of Rights has today published a second Consultation Paper. The Commission is seeking further views from the public on whether or not we need a UK Bill of Rights, and if so, what the form and content of any such Bill might be. Commenting on the release of the…
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Helen Fenwick: An appeasement approach in the European Court of Human Rights?
This piece asks whether, in the light of UK proposals for the reform of the ECtHR, and in the wake of the outcry in the UK over the Qatada decision (Othman v UK), the Court is taking an approach that looks like one of appeasement of certain signatory states. Two very recent decisions will be…