Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom

The first comprehensive account of the ways in which human rights are protected in the domestic laws of the United Kingdom, Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom:

Examines fully the different ways in which human rights are protected by domestic courts – analyses common law, devolution legislation and other statutes
Examines fully the personal, temporal and geographical scope of the Human Rights Act
Analyses the impact of human rights principles on legislation and examines the scope of the obligation to read legislation compatibly with Convention rights
Discusses general principles such as proportionality, weight, deference, and remedies – material which is not covered in such detail in any other major human rights title
Deals comprehensively with remedies
Looks at the obligation of all courts and tribunals in the UK to take account of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the general principles which that Court has developed in interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights
Focuses on the interaction between the Human Rights Act and existing statutory and common law remedies; and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights under Articles 41 and 46
Assesses the impact of human rights law on the decisions of public officials
Gives a detailed account of the protection of human rights under the devolution statutes in Scotland, Northern Ireland and WalesThis book is based on the highly respected Grosz, Beatson and Duffy, Human Rights: the 1998 Act and the Convention, but it is not a second edition of that work. It does not attempt to survey the substantive law of human rights, but examines fully the different ways in which human rights are protected by domestic courts.