Making Rights Real: The Human Rights ACT in Its First Decade

by Ian Leigh and Roger Masterman

Ten years after the passing of the Human Rights Act 1998, it is timely to evaluate the Act's effectiveness. The focus of Making Rights Real is on the extent to which the Act has delivered on the promise to 'bring rights home'. To that end the book considers how the judiciary, parliament and the executive have performed in the new roles that the Human Rights Act requires them to play and the courts' application of the Act in different legal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841133531
• ISBN13: 9781841133539
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"