Category: Constitutional Law
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament in the Business Encyclopaedia and Legal Adviser Based on the Business Encyclopaedia and Legal Adviser , by W.S.M. Knight, Barrister –at – Law. Act of parliament is the term applied to an act, wherein the three constituent parts of the sovereign power in this realm, king, […]