The Work Of The Committee In 2007 And The State Of Human Rights In The Uk

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780104012192
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Work of the Committee in 2007 and the state of human rights in the UK written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work of the Committee in 2007 and the state of human rights in the UK : Sixth report of session 2007-08, report, together with formal Minutes

Author : Lieve Gies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317950585
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mediating Human Rights written by Lieve Gies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on social-legal, cultural and media theory, this book is one of the first to examine the media politics of human rights. It examines how the media construct the story of human rights, investigating what lies behind the apparent media hostility to human rights and what has become of the original ambition to establish a human rights culture. The human rights regime has been high on the political agenda ever since the Human Rights Act 1998 was enacted. Often maligned in sections of the press, the legislation has entered popular folklore as shorthand for an overbearing government, an overzealous judiciary and exploitative claimants. This book examines a range of significant factors in the mediation of human rights, including: Euroscepticism, the war on terror, the digital reordering of the media landscape, , press concerns about an emerging privacy law and civil liberties. Mediating Human Rights is a timely exploration of the relationship between law, politics and media. It will be of immense interest to those studying and researching across Law, Media Studies, Human Rights, and Politics.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780108459245
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work of the Committee in 2008-09: Second Report of Session 2009-10 Report, Together with Formal Minutes and Written Evidence written by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report that provides an overview of the Committee's work during the 2008-09 parliamentary session and draws attention to improvements to the human rights landscape in the UK which it has commended in reports during the year. It also mentions a number of continuing areas for concern.

Author : Katja S Ziegler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 150990199X
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The UK and European Human Rights written by Katja S Ziegler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK's engagement with the legal protection of human rights at a European level has been, at varying stages, pioneering, sceptical and antagonistic. The UK government, media and public opinion have all at times expressed concerns about the growing influence of European human rights law, particularly in the controversial contexts of prisoner voting and deportation of suspected terrorists as well as in the context of British military action abroad. British politicians and judges have also, however, played important roles in drafting, implementing and interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. Its incorporation into domestic law in the Human Rights Act 1998 intensified the ongoing debate about the UK's international and regional human rights commitments. Furthermore, the increasing importance of the European Union in the human rights sphere has added another layer to the relationship and highlights the complex relationship(s) between the UK government, the Westminster Parliament and judges in the UK, Strasbourg and Luxembourg. The book analyses the topical and contentious issue of the relationship between the UK and the European systems for the protection of human rights (ECHR and EU) from doctrinal, contextual and comparative perspectives and explores factors that influence the relationship of the UK and European human rights.

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195376927
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The UK's approach to terrorism written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Constitutes the Terrorism Series' first expansion into non-U.S. legal regimes, and this initial volume deals solely with the UK's approach to security law. Ever since the London bombings of July 7th, 2005, the UK has been faced with the challenge of improving the nation's security while maintaining its proud tradition of civil liberties."--Publisher's website.

Author : Tom Campbell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199606072
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legal Protection of Human Rights written by Tom Campbell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The value and legitimacy of using courts to limit the powers of governments in the domain of human rights is a significant ongoing debate. This book provides a critical review that explores the alternative means for protecting and promoting human rights. This group of twenty-four leading human rights scholars from around the world present a variety of perspectives on the disappointing human rights outcomes of recent institutional developments and consider the prospects of reviving the moral force and political implications of human rights values.

Author : Gerhard van der Schyff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048190029
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judicial Review of Legislation written by Gerhard van der Schyff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutionalism is the permanent quest to control state power, of which the judicial review of legislation is a prime example. Although the judicial review of legislation is increasingly common in modern societies, it is not a finished project. This device still raises questions as to whether judicial review is justified, and how it may be structured. Yet, judicial review’s justification and its scope are seldom addressed in the same study, thereby making for an inconvenient divorce of these two related avenues of study. To narrow the divide, the object of this work is quite straightforward. Namely, is the idea of judicial review defensible, and what influences its design and scope? This book addresses these matters by comparing the judicial review of legislation in the United Kingdom (the Human Rights Act of 1998), the Netherlands (the Halsema Proposal of 2002) and the Constitution of South Africa of 1996. These systems present valuable material to study the issues raised by judicial review. The Netherlands is of particular interest as its Constitution still prohibits the constitutional review of acts of parliament, while allowing treaty review of such acts. The Halsema Proposal wants to even out this difference by allowing the courts also to apply constitutional norms to legislation and not only to international norms. The Human Rights Act and the South African Constitution also present interesting questions that will make their study worthwhile. One can think of the issue of dialogue between the legislature and the judiciary. This topic enjoys increased attention in the United Kingdom but is somewhat underexplored in South African thought on judicial review. These and similar issues are studied in each of the three systems, to not only gain a better understanding of the systems as such, but also of judicial review in general.

Author : Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780104425084
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities written by Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report follows the Committee's first report of session 2008-09 on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (HL paper 9/HC 93, ISBN 9780104014165) in which the Committee welcomed the Government's intention to ratify the Convention but drew attention to proposals for reservations and interpretative declarations. The Committee was concerned that there had been insufficient scrutiny of these proposals, not least because draft texts had not been published, and that the Office for Disability Issues had not robustly challenged Government departments about their proposals. The Government laid the Convention before Parliament on 3 March, heralding the beginning of the ratification process. Four reservations and one interpretative declaration were proposed. The Committee has criticised the Government for ruling out formal consultation on these proposals and also drawn attention to the limited opportunities for parliamentary scrutiny and control of the ratification of treaties. Ratification should take priority over potentially lengthy and futile discussions about whether or not to enter reservations but the Government's approach to some of the reservations has been unduly cautious and may detract from the position role the UK has played in relation to the Convention. The Committee considers that the reservation relating to service in the armed forces is open to challenge as incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention. The reservation relating to immigration control is felt to be too broad, its purpose has not been adequately explained and so it should be dropped. The Government should clarify matters in relation to the reservation and declaration on education and should consult on how to deal with the treatment of benefits appointees.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215544742
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The work of committees in 2008-09 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: work of committees In 2008-09 : Second report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes and Appendices

Author : Carol Harlow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521197074
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Administration written by Carol Harlow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contextualised study setting out the foundations of administrative law, with discussion of case law and legislation to show practical application.