Masterman, Roger and Wheatle, Se-shauna (2015) 'A common law resurgence in rights protection?', European human rights law review., 2015 (1). pp. 57-65.
Abstract
Following a period of relative dormancy, the UK Supreme Court has revitalised the notion that the common law might provide effective protection for human rights. In Osborn v Parole Board , Kennedy v Information Commissioner and A v BBC the Supreme Court has provided support for the suggestion that the common law—and not the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights—should be the primary source of legal authority for a domestic court considering an issue of individual rights. This piece traces this resurgence of common law rights reasoning, and assesses the nature of the primacy it seeks to accord to the common law.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Common law, Human rights. |
| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (258Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/catalogue/productdetails.aspx?recordid=388&productid=6823 |
| Date accepted: | 07 December 2014 |
| Date deposited: | 19 December 2014 |
| Date of first online publication: | 07 January 2015 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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