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Liberty intact : human rights in English law /
What are the connections between conceptions of rights found in English law and those found in bills of rights around the World? How has English Common Law influenced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948 and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 1950? These questions and mo...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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UK,
OUP,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Historical overview
- Liberty and equality
- The rule of law
- Access to justice
- Right of resistance
- Life, security, detention, torture, liberty, and Villeinage
- Property, taxation, elections, work, and slavery
- Freedom of expression
- Private and family life, home and correspondence
- Conscience, religion, association, assembly, petition, and duties
- Sovereignty and revolution
- Functions of rights
- Limits to legislation
- The future of British rights.