Public law after the Human Rights Act / Tom Hickman.

What is the Human Rights Act? What is its relationship to the common law? Is there a need to invent new doctrines of public law to accommodate the Act? Will it lead to the extinction of established doctrines? What should be the effect of the Act on the structure of public law as a whole?

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Main Author: Hickman, Tom (Tom R.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The common law and the Human Rights Act
  • Constitutional theory and constitutional dialogue
  • Standards and rights in public law
  • Weight and deference
  • Proportionality
  • Reasonableness
  • The forbidden process element in human rights review
  • The substance and structure of public law after the Human Rights Act
  • The right of access to court
  • Derogation and emergency.