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The Charter of Rights and the Legalisation of Politics in Canada, 2d ed., Michael Mandel, Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 1994; 542 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

Angela Hegarty
Affiliation:
School of Public Policy, Economics & Law University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

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Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1996

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References

1. See, for example, the impact of Charter 88 and the British Labour Party's abandonment of its opposition to a Bill of Rights.

2. For example, Section 6 of the Charter is akin to provisions in the Fourth Protocol to the European Convention, and to Article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights.

3. See Dicey, A. V., The Law of the Constitution, 10th ed., [1885] (Macmillan, 1985)Google Scholar; McAuslan, & McEldowney, , Law, Legitimacy and the Constitution (Sweet & Maxwell, 1985)Google Scholar; Raz, , “The Rule of Law and Its Virtue” (1977) 93 Law Quarterly Review 195.Google Scholar

4. (1985) 24 D.L.R. (4th) 536, at 345.

5. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 US 483 (1954).

6. Advocate General v. X [1992] IRLM 401, [1992] 2 CMLR 277.

7. See Farrell, , Northern Ireland: The Orange State (Pluto, 1980).Google Scholar

8. See, for example, Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, 1993, Human Rights & Legal Defense in Northern Ireland (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991)Google Scholar; Human Rights Watch, Human Rights in Northern Ireland (New York: Liberty, 1993)Google Scholar; National Council for Civil Liberties, Broken Covenants: Violations of International Law in Northern Ireland (London).Google Scholar

9. Brogan et al. v. UK [1989] 11 EHRR 117.

10. Brannigan & McBride v. UK 26th May 1993.

11. Fourth Periodic Report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Human Rights Committee under Article 40 of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (London: Home Office, October 1994).

12. A Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland (Belfast: Committee on the Administration of Justice, 1993). See also Making Rights Count (Belfast: Committee on the Administration of Justice, 1990).

13. See, for example, Thornton, , Dacade of Decline: Civil Liberties in the Thatcher Years (London: Liberty, 1989).Google Scholar