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Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act

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Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act

Name: Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act
Brand: Hart Publishing
SKU: 9781841138305
Price: 1134.90 HKD
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Author: Alison Young
ISBN: 9781841138305

By Alison Young

Hart Publishing December 2008

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781841138305
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Publication: December 2008
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

The Human Rights Act 1998 is criticised for providing a weak protection of human rights. The principle of parliamentary legislative supremacy prevents entrenchment, meaning that courts cannot overturn legislation passed after the Act that contradicts Convention rights.

This book investigates this assumption, arguing that the principle of parliamentary legislative supremacy is sufficiently flexible to enable a stronger protection of human rights, which can replicate the effect of entrenchment. Nevertheless, it will be argued that the current protection should not be strengthened. If correctly interpreted, the Human Rights Act can facilitate democratic dialogue that enables courts to perform their proper correcting function to protect rights from abuse, whilst enabling the legislature to authoritatively determine contestable issues surrounding the extent to which human rights should be protected alongside other rights, interests and goals of a particular society.

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