Human Rights Act 1998

Weekend Reading: Bonfires, Liberties and Reviews

This weekend I will be revisiting a book released this year by Keith Ewing and entitled Bonfire of the Liberties: New Labour, Human Rights and the Rule of Law (2010, OUP) in conjunction with Helen Fenwick‘s review of the book in the new issue of the Journal of Law & Society. The blurb for Bonfire(…)

Did the UK General Election save the Human Rights Act?

Last week’s formation of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in the United Kingdom under the leadership of David Cameron raised serious questions as to how the two parties could reconcile their civil liberties platforms. The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) is the focal point of this rupture between the parties, with the Conservative Party’s manifesto(…)

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