Human Rights in the UK and the Commonwealth Caribbean
The Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic law, was a landmark moment in British legal history, with quasi-constitutional protection for fundamental rights. Meanwhile, the national constitutions of the Commonwealth Caribbean contain fundamental rights provisions which are often inspired by, but diverge significantly from, the European Convention.
This lecture will examine the judicial protection of human rights in the UK and the Commonwealth Caribbean, and will confront its shortcomings and vulnerabilities.
A lecture by Leslie Thomas QC
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Very interesting lecture. Great work.
Very well explained.
I didn't realise just how incongruous British law was against EHR.
If anyone wants a lesson on or in Human Rights, Google the Hooded men. About British torture in N IRELAND in 1970s
You have no rights in the UK...!
More like a progressive activist than any sort of academic. No sense of why partisan laws made by a remote court might not be acceptable to a people used to electing their own government. People like this do immense damage to the prestige of the English legal profession, let alone that of the academy.