Human Rights Law in the UK: Themes and Principles

This book offers a rich analysis of many aspects of human rights law in the UK and the European legal framework while also including critiques of human rights and the varying conceptions of rights. This book has the advantage of engaging with both Strasbourg caselaw, domestic jurisprudence and the academic scholarship. The issues covered are the right to life, the prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, abortion and assisted dying, modern slavery and human trafficking, terrorism, immigration, privacy, hate speech, protest, religion, equality and non-discrimination.

• The nature of rights and their critiques is established at the outset of the book, providing a strong foundation for nuanced and analytical analysis of key human rights issues
• The domestic law and ECHR frameworks are examined in detail, highlighting the interplay between the two systems and the ways in which different issues have been resolved – not always consistently – within the two spheres
• Key issues such as abortion, assisted dying, modern slavery and human trafficking, terrorism, privacy, hate speech and non-discrimination are examined from the point of view of both domestic law and the ECHR, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which courts in different jurisdictions have conceptualised rights and applied them to contemporary issues