Human rights brought home
Subtitle: socio-legal perspectives on human rights in the national context
By: edited by Simon Halliday and Patrick Schmidt.
Contributors: Halliday, Simon.; Schmidt, Patrick D. 1971-
Series: Human rights law in perspective ;; v. 3
Publisher: Hart
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Great Britain; Human rights -- Great Britain; Human rights -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : socio-legal perspectives on human rights in the national context / Patrick Schmidt and Simon Halliday; title: Implementing human rights / Denis Galligan and Deborah Sandler; title: France, the UK, and the 'boomerang' of the internationalisation of human rights (1945-2000) / Mikael Rask Madsen; title: 'We've had to raise our game': liberty's litigation strategy under the Human Rights Act 1998 / Richard J. Maiman; title: Implementing the Human Rights Act into the courts in England and Wales : culture shift or damp squib? / John Raine and Clive Walker; title: The effectiveness of national human rights institutions / Stephen Livingstone and Rachel Murray; title: When do rights matter? A case study of the right to equal treatment in Sweden / Reza Banakar; title: Human rights and French criminal justice : opening the door to pre-trial defence rights / Jacqueline Hodgson; title: The millennium blip : the Human Rights Act 1998 and local government / Luke Clements and Rachel Morris; title: Empowering children? Legal understandings and experiences of rights in the Scottish children's hearings system / Anne Griffiths and Randy Frances Kandel.