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Human rights in the United Kingdom

Author: R J F Gordon; Richard Wilmot-Smith
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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This is a highly readable collection of essays putting the case for the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. Each essay is readily accessible to the general reader as well as being clear and concise.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: R J F Gordon; Richard Wilmot-Smith
ISBN: 0198260679 9780198260677
OCLC Number: 35978487
Description: xiii, 140 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The European Convention on Human Rights: time to incorporate / Right Hon, Lord Bingham, Lord Chief Justice --
Rights and rites for a new Britain / Andrew Marr --
Why we need a constitutional court / Richard Gordon QC --
Why incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights is not enough / John Wadham --
A Bill of Rights as secular ethics / Francesca Klug --
Does Britain need a Bill of Rights? / Ronald Dworkin --
Ideas whose time has passed / Bill Emmott, David Manasian --
Incorporation and the loss of illusions / Richard Wilmot-Smith QC --
Taking human rights seriously / Anthony Lester QC.
Responsibility: Richard Gordon and Richard Wilmot-Smith, [editors].
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This is a highly readable collection of essays putting the case for the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. Each essay is readily accessible to the general reader as well as being clear and concise.

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