Your Rights: The Liberty Guide

by JohnWadham (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  Attacks on civil liberties are on the increase in the United Kingdom. This is evident in restrictions on press freedom, greater public secrecy, censorship, intolerance towards travellers , lesbians and gays and other minority groups and wider police controls. This book provides a guide to civil rights and the law for the lay reader as well as those working in the legal and advice professions. Based on Liberty's own advice sheets, the guide explains legal rights, covering recent legislation and highlights aspects of the law which adversely affect civil rights. Each section is prefaced with a summary of the issues covered, followed by definitions and powers relevant to the area. The guide does not cover the law in Scotland or Northern Ireland.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $4.20

  Will be the first guide to the implications of the new Human Rights Act; Published in association with Liberty; Provides clear, expert, authoritative guide for the layperson; Praise for the 6th Edition: 'A very useful general guide...It is the kind of book that everyone needs from time to time, whether it is to decide whether there are grounds for using the law or just to check up on something. It is well laid out and easy to use.' Labour Research This new edition of the successful civil liberties guide Your Rights is expanded and extended in scope to include full coverage of the Human Rights Act - given Royal Assent in 1998, to come into force October 2000. In this Act, the European Convention on Human Rights becomes central to English law, giving statutory force to the general presumption that all legislation (past or future) is intended to be compatible with Convention Rights. It also requires courts to interpret all law - whether statutory or judge-made - so as to conform with the Convention whenever possible. Thirdly, and most importantly, the Act will require public authorities to act in compliance with the Convention. Public bodies acting in violation of the Convention will be acting unlawfully. Public authorities affected will include government departments, local authorities, the police, immigration, prisons, NHS and trust hospitals, the courts and tribunals and any body which exercises a public function.