The Human Rights Act and the Criminal Justice and Regulatory Process: The Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge

by Jack Beatson

Overview

The UK's new Human Rights Act with its duty to give domestic effect to the European Convention on Human Rights and the jurisprudence of the Strasbourg court will have a significant effect on many aspects of the criminal and regulatory process. The papers in this volume, arising from the second Cambridge Centre for Public Law conference consider the Act's impact on investigation and surveillance, on evidence, procedure and the substantive law applied at trials and hearings, and at the post-trial stage e.g. sentencing and post-report action in respect of DTI Inspection.

Contributions from many of the country's leading criminal and regulatory lawyers (both academic and practising) make this volume an important and original source for all criminal lawyers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841130507
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/14/1999
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Sir Jack Beatson is a High Court judge, having previously been the Rouse Ball Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge

Editorial Reviews

"...a highly useful book for all those interested in the criminal process." --Law Quarterly Review

From the Publisher

Sixteen papers consider the impact of the UK's Human Rights Act 1998 implementing the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR); the Act's constitutional context (viewed as strengthening rather than diluting English common law); and relation to criminal justice, and regulation. Appends counsels' opinions on ECHR influence on the draft Financial Services and Markets Bill. Based on the Centre's winter 1999 conference. Lacks an index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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