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Parliamentary sovereignty and the Human Rights Act /
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 as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub.,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 is argued that the current protection should not be strengthened. If correctly interp. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 180 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847314734 1847314732 1282118978 9781282118973 9781472560360 1472560361 |