Following a period of relative dormancy, the UK Supreme Court has revitalised the notion that the common law might provide effective protection for human rights. In Osborn v Parole Board , Kennedy v Information Commissioner and A v BBC the Supreme Court has provided support for the suggestion that the common law—and not the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights—should be the primary source of legal authority for a domestic court considering an issue of individual rights. This piece traces this resurgence of common law rights reasoning, and assesses the nature of the primacy it seeks to accord to the common law
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This Article considers the impact which European Human Rights Law has made upon the common law rules...
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Human Rights took a significant shape following the Universal Declaration in 1948. Since then system...
The Politics of the Common Law is an introduction to the English legal system that places the law in...
The United Kingdom Human Rights Act 1998 – constitutional migration – impacts of legislative design ...
The protection of human rights through common law principles and values has a greater potential than...
This article reviews the institutional and substantive impact that the Human Rights Act has on Engli...
In the late 1990s, the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) was incorporated into British law. Section 3 of...
In the late 1990s, the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) was incorporated into British law. Section 3 of t...
Into a steadfastly conservative constitutional landscape, the United Kingdom Parliament has now intr...
Are we defined by the choices we make or the duties we owe? This paper argues that there is a confli...
Rights protection in the UK is multi-faceted and multi-layered. Multi-faceted because our rights der...
In this article, I argue against the claim that the practice of the European Court of Human Rights c...
Human rights were introduced into the United Kingdom law over two decades ago. They were, it was sai...
Book synopsis: The Politics of the Common Law is an introduction to the English legal system that pl...
This Article considers the impact which European Human Rights Law has made upon the common law rules...
Since its entry into force in 2000, the Human Rights Act 1998 has become largely synonymous with hum...
Human Rights took a significant shape following the Universal Declaration in 1948. Since then system...
The Politics of the Common Law is an introduction to the English legal system that places the law in...
The United Kingdom Human Rights Act 1998 – constitutional migration – impacts of legislative design ...
The protection of human rights through common law principles and values has a greater potential than...
This article reviews the institutional and substantive impact that the Human Rights Act has on Engli...
In the late 1990s, the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) was incorporated into British law. Section 3 of...
In the late 1990s, the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) was incorporated into British law. Section 3 of t...
Into a steadfastly conservative constitutional landscape, the United Kingdom Parliament has now intr...
Are we defined by the choices we make or the duties we owe? This paper argues that there is a confli...
Rights protection in the UK is multi-faceted and multi-layered. Multi-faceted because our rights der...
In this article, I argue against the claim that the practice of the European Court of Human Rights c...
Human rights were introduced into the United Kingdom law over two decades ago. They were, it was sai...
Book synopsis: The Politics of the Common Law is an introduction to the English legal system that pl...
This Article considers the impact which European Human Rights Law has made upon the common law rules...