Rights-consistent interpretation and the human Rights Act 1998

Philip Sales, Richard Ekins

Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) · 2011 · 21 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Legislation: Human Rights Act 1998 s.3 , s.4 European Convention on Human Rights 1950 *217 “Our aim is a straightforward one. It is to make more directly accessible the rights which the British people already enjoy under the Convention. In other words, to bring those rights home”1 1. From the White Paper, Rights Brought Home: The Human Rights Bill (HMSO, 1997) Cm.3782, at para.1.19.