Judicial Reasoning Under the UK Human Rights Act (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521876339)

Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act is a collection of essays written by leading experts in the field, which examines judicial decision-making under the UK's de facto Bill of Rights. The book focuses both on changes in areas of substantive law and the techniques of judicial reasoning adopted to implement the Act. The contributors therefore consider first general Convention and Human Rights Act concepts - statutory interpretation, horizontal effect, judicial review, deference, the reception of Strasbourg case-law - since they arise across all areas of substantive law. They then proceed to examine not only the use of such concepts in particular fields of law (privacy, family law, clashing rights, discrimination and criminal procedure), but also the modes of reasoning by which judges seek to bridge the divide between familiar common law and statutory doctrines and those in the Convention.

Author: Helen Fenwick
ISBN-10: 0521876338
ISBN-13: 9780521876339
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2007
Pages: 484
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.31w x 1.26d