| Description |
1 online resource (174 pages) |
| Contents |
Half Title Page; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; Introductiion; Conference Chairmen, Speakers and Panellists; The Cambridge Centre for Public Law; Keynote Speech; An Overview; Part I -- The Constitutional Context; 1. The Human Rights Act 1998: The Constitutional Context; 2. Activism and Restraint: Human Rights and the Interpretative Process; 3. The Art of the Possible, Interpreting Statutes Under the Human Rights Act; 4. The Judicial Studies Board and the ECHR; Part II -- Criminal Justice and the Act; 5. The European Convention and Criminal Law |
| Summary |
The UK's new Human Rights Act with its duty to give domestic effect to the European Convention on Human Rights and the jurisprudence of the Strasbourg court will have a significant effect on many aspects of the criminal and regulatory process. The papers in this volume, arising from the second Cambridge Centre for Public Law conference consider the Act's impact on investigation and surveillance, on evidence, procedure and the substantive law applied at trials and hearings, and at the post-trial stage e.g. sentencing and post-report action in respect of DTI Inspection. Contributions from many of |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Human Rights Act 1998.
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| SUBJECT |
Human Rights Act 1998 (Great Britain) fast |
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Human rights -- Great Britain
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Human rights
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847313065 |
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184731306X |
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1281041890 |
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9781281041890 |
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