Table of Contents

Introduction; The Human Rights Act checklist; The right to a fair trial checklist; Discrimination checklist; Worked case examples; The checklist questions; The significance of the Human Rights Act 1998; A breakdown of the convention rights; Understanding the convention rights; Human rights principles in the European Convention of Human Rights; How the Human Rights Act 1998 works

About the Author

Jenny Watson was the last Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission before the creation of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2007. She has previously worked in human rights organisations including the Human Rights Act Research Unit, Charter88 and Liberty, and now works with Global Partners and Associates.Mitchell Woolf is a solicitor specialising in human rights law and, in particular, the rights of the child. He has extensive casework and research experience and is a visiting lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He is a research associate at the Programme on the International Rights of the Child and is on the Howard League Youth Justice Working Group

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