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Human Rights: UK Effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Susan Poffley
Susan Poffley
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Susan Poffley of Cameron McKenna reflects on the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 for English domestic law. She looks at some of the cases where it has been cited and considers whether it has led to major changes in approach.
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Extract

The Human Rights Act 1998 (the Act) incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) into English domestic law for the first time since the Convention was signed in 1951. It does this by imposing a duty on public authorities to act in a manner which is consistent with Convention rights, unless legislation prohibits them for doing so.

Type
Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Spring 2001 , pp. 21 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2001

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