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Entries Categorized: Constitutional Law (24)
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Age Discrimination
Resources See Also Further Reading Age Discrimination in the Encyclopedia of Britain Age Discrimination in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary Age Discrimination in the Halsbury's Laws of England Age Discrimination in the Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases Age [...]Bill of Rights
The name commonly used for the Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, passed by parliament in December 1689. Its concern -in accordance to Bamber Gascoigne´ Encyclopedia of Britain about “Bill of Rights”- was not with the rights of the individual subject. It dealt instead with [...]Brighton Declaration of the European Court of Human Rights
The 47 member nations of the Council of Europe agreed a package of reforms at a conference in Brighton in 2012. These reforms were published in the Brighton Declaration. The plan is to amend the introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights (known as the preamble) to include the [...]Constitutional Development
Significance of English Constitutional Development in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries This indeed is the salient fact in the evolution of constitutional government in England. While in other countries late in the eighteenth century monarchs still ruled by divine right, in [...]Disability Discrimination
Resources See Also See disabled person. Resources See Also Further Reading Disability Discrimination in the Encyclopedia of Britain Disability Discrimination in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary Disability Discrimination in the Halsbury's Laws of England Disability Discrimination [...]Discrimination
Definition of Discrimination In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Discrimination : Treating one or more members of a specified group unfairly as compared with other people. Discrimination may be illegal on the ground of sex, sexual orientation, race, [...]Discrimination and Race Relations Policy
Discrimination and race relations policy: UK Legal History Race Relations Act 1965 The Race Relation Act of 1965 aimed to prevent racial discrimination. However, it was a weak piece of legislation and only spoke of discrimination in specified 'places of public resort', such as hotels [...]Employment Law Cases
Most Popular Entries related to Employment Law Cases Employment Law (in the United Kingdom) Employment Law Cases (in the United Kingdom) Employment Law Definition (in the United Kingdom) Employment Law Discrimination (in the United Kingdom) Employment Law Advice (in the United Kingdom) [...]Equality Impact Assessment
Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) in the Context of Equality Law The meaning of Equality Impact Assessment (EIA), published by the Equality and Diversity Forum (a United Kindom network of equality and human rights organisations), is the following: is a formal structured approach to assessing [...]Equality Law
Equality Law in the Context of Human Rights Resources See Also Equality Law Equality Act Equality Legislation Human RightsEquality Legislation
Equality Legislation in the Context of Equality Law Resources See Also Equality Law Equality Act Equality Legislation Human RightsEquality of Opportunity
Equality of opportunity in the Context of Equality Law The meaning of Equality of opportunity, published by the Equality and Diversity Forum (a United Kindom network of equality and human rights organisations), is the following: means everyone having an equal opportunity to achieve their full [...]Freedom of Association
Definition of Freedom of Association In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Freedom of Association : A right set out in Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights and now part of UK law as a consequence of the *Human Rights Act 1998. This right [...]Freedom of Expression
Definition of Freedom of Expression In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Freedom of Expression : A right set out in Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and now part of UK law as a consequence of the *Human Rights Act 1998. Freedom of [...]Human Rights
Human Rights in the Context of Equality Law Resources Equality Topics Equality Law Equality Act Equality Legislation Human Rights Asylum and Refugee Topics Political Asylum Refugees Asylum Asylum Law Refugee Crisis Refugee Action Refugee Definition Political Asylum Definition Right of [...]Human Rights (ECHR) Milestone Cases
ADT v United Kingdom - 35765/97 (BAILII: [2000] ECHR 402 ) Aerts v Belgium - 25357/94 (BAILII: [1998] ECHR 64 ) Ahmed & Ors v United Kingdom - 22954/93 (BAILII: [1998] ECHR 78 ) Ahmed v Austria - 25964/94 (BAILII: [1996] ECHR 63 ) (1997) 24 EHRR [...]Magna Carta Commentaries and Treatises
Magna Carta: Commentaries and Treatises Introduction At the beginning of the twentieth century, Charles McIlwain observed that the new histories of the Magna Carta were portraying the charter as a “document of reaction” that could only fulfill its purported greatness “when men [were] no [...]Racial Discrimination
Resources See Also Further Reading Racial Discrimination in the Encyclopedia of Britain Racial Discrimination in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary Racial Discrimination in the Halsbury's Laws of England Racial Discrimination in the Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and [...]Regnal Years
British Regnal Years British Regnal Years, with date of accession and years in reign Acts under the Regnal Year System Prior to 1963, Acts of Parliament were numbered using the year of the sovereign’s reign in which the Act was passed, a system known as regnal years. Under the regnal year [...]Religious Discrimination
Resources See Also Further Reading Religious Discrimination in the Encyclopedia of Britain Religious Discrimination in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary Religious Discrimination in the Halsbury's Laws of England Religious Discrimination in the Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of [...]Sex Discrimination
Resources See Also Further Reading Sex Discrimination in the Encyclopedia of Britain Sex Discrimination in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary Sex Discrimination in the Halsbury's Laws of England Sex Discrimination in the Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases Sex [...]Victimisation
Victimisation in the Context of Equality Law The meaning of Victimisation, published by the Equality and Diversity Forum (a United Kindom network of equality and human rights organisations), is the following: means treating a person badly because they have made or supported a complaint about [...]William Sharp McKechnie
McKechnie was a lecturer on constitutional law and history in the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He was of Scot nationality. He was the author of Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John, with an Historical Introduction (Glasgow: Maclehose, 1914). It had 2 editions. [...]In Perpetual Beta
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