Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (284 p.)
Disciplina	342.41085
Collana	Human rights law in perspective
Soggetto topico	Human rights - Great Britain
ISBN	1-4725-6330-1 1-280-80045-3 9786610800452 1-84731-067-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1. Creating a culture of respect for human rights -- 2. Mainstreaming human rights -- 3. Partner rediscovered: human rights and equality in the UK -- 4. Social and economic rights as agents for change -- 5. Building a human rights culture -- 6. Education: hard or soft lessons in human rights -- 7. Older people -- 8. The Human Rights Act 1998 and disabled people: a right to be human? -- 9. The emperor's new clothes? The impact of the Human Rights Act on mental health care -- 10. Sexual orientation and gender identity -- 11. Religious discrimination -- 12. Children's human rights as a force for change.
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Autore	Tyrrel Hélène
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford [UK] ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (261 pages)
Disciplina	342.4208/5
Collana	Hart studies in comparative public law
Soggetto topico	Conflict of laws - Great Britain Human rights - Great Britain International and municipal law - Great Britain
ISBN	1-5099-0495-6 1-5099-0497-2 1-5099-0496-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Research methodology -- Legitimacy and authority -- The purpose of foreign jurisprudence -- Foreign jurisprudence in the UK Supreme Court -- Foreign jurisprudence as a heuristic tool -- The pursuit of a common enterprise -- Instrumental uses of foreign jurisprudence.
Altri titoli varianti	Human rights in the United Kingdom and the influence of foreign jurisprudence
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Autore	McQuigg Ronagh J. A.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Abingdon, Oxon, England ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (191 p.)
Disciplina	345/.02555
Collana	Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
Soggetto topico	Family violence - Law and legislation - Great Britain Human rights - Great Britain Family violence - Law and legislation Human rights
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-24186-2 9786613241863 1-136-74208-5 0-203-81928-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover; International Human Rights Law and Domestic Violence; Copyright Page; Contents; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Introduction; 1. Potential problems for the effectiveness of international human rights law as regards domestic violence; The achievements of international human rights law; Problems; The way in which rights were formulated and the public/private dichotomy; Conflicting rights; Implementation difficulties; Conclusion; 2. What measures may it be beneficial for human rights law to achieve in relation to domestic violence?; Improving the criminal justice system Civil law measuresProviding social support measures to victims; Changing attitudes; Ensuring inter-agency cooperation; Tackling risk factors; Battery treatment programmes; Conclusion; 3. The jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights; Positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights; In what ways is domestic violence a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights?; How has the European Court of Human Rights addressed the issue of domestic violence?; Limitations on the obligation to take operational measures The responses of states to the judgments of the CourtThe provision of resources to victims of domestic violence; The margin of appreciation; Conclusion; 4. The Human Rights Act 1998: Could the United Kingdom courts rise to the challenge?; The horizontal effect of the Human Rights Act 1998; Has domestic violence been recognised as a human rights issue in the United Kingdom?; The deference shown by judges; The limits on what courts can achieve and difficulties surrounding socio-economic rights; The problem of alleged perpetrators relying on human rights law The ability of law to deal with an 'unseen' crimeConclusion; 5. The approach of the international human rights bodies to domestic violence; Improving the criminal justice system; Improving the civil law; Providing measures of social support for victims; Improving societal awareness; Improving the awareness of professionals; Developing inter-agency approaches; Tackling risk factors; Developing programmes for perpetrators; Undertaking research; Amending CEDAW?; The Optional Protocol to CEDAW; Transcending the public/private dichotomy; Conclusion 6. Implementation of the statements of the international human rights bodies in the United KingdomIs the United Kingdom complying with the recommendations?; Why is the United Kingdom complying/not complying with the recommendations?; Could the statements of international human rights bodies be used more effectively?; Conclusion; 7. Conclusion; A litigation approach; Using the statements of the international human rights bodies; Final points; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Autore	Palmer Ellie
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (385 p.)
Disciplina	347.42012
Collana	Human rights law in perspective
Soggetto topico	Judicial review of administrative acts - Great Britain Social rights - Great Britain Human rights - Great Britain Human rights - Europe
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4725-6013-2 1-281-25866-0 9786611258665 1-84731-376-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	INTRODUCTION 1 -- 1 THE ROLE OF COURTS IN THE PROTECTION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS: INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC PERSPECTIVES -- I. The Indivisibility of Human Rights -- A. Understanding Socio-economic Rights as Human Rights -- B. Two Faces of Liberty: Conflicting Ideologies of Socio-economic and Civil and Political Rights -- C. Socio-economic Rights, Resources and the Negative-Positive Dichotomy -- D. A Unified Approach to Human Rights: To 'Respect, Protect and Promote' the Rights -- E. The Normative Content of Socio-economic Rights: Programmatic Aspirations and the 'Minimum Core' -- II. The Protection of Socio-economic Rights in Domestic Courts -- A. Issues of Justiciability: Achieving Social Justice in the Round? -- i. Institutional Competencies -- ii. Welfare Politics, Courts and Conflicting Theories of Constitutional Review -- B. The Protection of Socio-economic Rights through the Traditional Canon of Civil and Political Rights -- C. The Dedicated Pursuit of Social Justice: The South African Model -- D. The Enforcement of Socio-economic Rights: Cooperative Dialogue in the South African Constitutional Court? -- III. Conclusion -- 2 THE REGIONAL PROTECTION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS: EUROPE -- I. Introduction -- II. The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 1950 -- A. Background and Context: The Negative-Positive Dichotomy Revisited -- B. Incremental Development of Positive Obligations in ECHR Rights -- C. Methodological Issues: Grafting a Jurisprudence of Positive Obligations onto the ECHR Rights -- D. Reconciling the Development of Positive Obligations with the Negative Thrust of the ECHR -- E. Theoretical Justifications for Positive Obligations and the Problem of Resources -- III. The Protection of Socio-economic Rights in the ECHR -- A. Developing Core Values in the ECHR Rights -- B. Article 2: A Right to Health Treatment? -- C. Article 3: Respect for Human Dignity -- D. Article 8: Protecting Physical and Psychological Integrity -- E. Article 14: The Equal Distribution of Public Goods? -- F. Article 6: Due Process in Public Law Challenges -- IV. The Protection of Socio-economic Rights in EC -- EU Law -- A. The Development of a Doctrine of Fundamental Rights in EC -- EU Law -- B. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union -- C. The European Court of Justice (ECJ): Social Solidarity and Access to Public Services in Member States -- i. Undue Delay -- ii. Article 49 EC Treaty -- V. Conclusion -- 3 COURTS, THE UK CONSTITUTION AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998 -- I. Introduction -- II. Reading and Giving Effect to ECHR Rights in UK Courts -- A. The Background and Political Context of the Human Rights Act (HRA) 1998 -- B. The Purpose and Structure of the HRA -- C. General Principles of Constitutional Interpretation in the United Kingdom -- D. The Interpretation of Section 3 HRA -- E. Deference: The Boundaries of Interpretative Possibility under Section 3 HRA -- F. Section 2 HRA and the Scope of ECHR Rights: Taking Account of Strasbourg Jurisprudence -- i. Stare Decisis -- G. Section 6 HRA: The Duty of Public Authorities to Act Compatibly with the ECHR Rights -- I. Human Rights or Economic Liberalism: Contested Interpretations of Section 6(3)(b) HRA -- III. Conclusion -- 4 JUDICIAL REVIEW: DEFERENCE, RESOURCES AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT -- I. Introduction -- II. The Constitutional Foundations of Judicial Review -- A. Ultra Vires or Rights? -- B. The Reception of Human Rights in English Law prior to the HRA -- C. Resistance to Human Rights in English Administrative Law -- D. Judicial Deference, Resources and the Ultra Vires Paradigm of Review -- III. Public Law, Deference and the Human Rights Act -- A. The Limits of Judicial Intervention under Section 6 HRA -- i. Context and Proportionality: A Bright-line Division in Public Law? -- B. Justification, Transparency and Reasons to Defer -- C. Deference Embedded: The Artificial Division between Policy and Law -- D. Deference in Context: Landlord and Tenant Repossession Cases -- E. Deference, the Subject Matter of Disputes and the Nature of the Rights -- F. Democracy, Human Rights Values and the 'Unity of Public Law' -- IV. Conclusion -- 5 FROM NEED TO 'CHOICE' IN PUBLIC SERVICES: THE BOUNDARIES OF JUDICIAL INTERVENTION IN PRIORITISATION DISPUTES -- I. Introduction -- A. From Need to Choice in NHS and Public Authority Services: The Post-welfare Landscape of the United Kingdom -- II. NHS Rationing: The Role of Courts in Disputes over Access to Medical Services -- A. The Limits of Judicial Intervention in Health Care Rationing: R v Cambridge Health Authority, ex parte B (Re B) -- B. NHS Policies under Scrutiny: Legitimate Interventions in Public Administrative Law -- i. Legitimate Expectation: The Meeting of Individual Needs -- ii. Irrational Allocation Policies: Distinguishing Re B -- C. Choice, Socio-economic Entitlements and EU Law: Challenging the Status Quo -- III. Local Authority Resource Allocation Disputes -- IV. Interpreting Local Authority Statutory Duties Post-HRA -- A. Section 17 Children Act 1989: Accommodating Children and their
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