Civil Liberties And Human Rights

liberties or, as it is becoming more commonly known, domestic human rights. Since the first edition of this book, there has been a rapid acceleration of development of this field of law, which has become almost all-pervasive. There are many new statutes and cases which have been incorporated into the questions in this edition, most notably the Human Rights Act 1998, which has finally incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms into domestic law. This is such a significant change that it will affect every civil liberties and human rights course and so the new law and its likely scope forms the focus of many of the questions in this edition. Students will be expected to have a thorough knowledge of the 1998 Act, its implications and the relevant existing case authority on the ECHR as it relates to each and every area of their course, and so these topics have been addressed in depth. The speed of change in this field and the sheer volume of new human rights-related statutes requires some selectivity in the topics chosen for discussion here, but the core areas of any human rights/civil liberties course are examined. New questions have also been included on topics of current and likely future interest, such as privacy, freedom of information, immigration and asylum provisions and discrimination law.