Human Rights and Civil Liberties - 9781138415843

Taylor & Francis

This work provides a textbook covering the main areas of civil liberties and human rights law as it applies to England and Wales. It sets out the arguments and debates which have surrounded the development of an increasingly controversial area of law, looking at its background principles. > \nThis book provides a wide-ranging and accessible textbook covering the main areas of civil liberties and human rights law as it applies to England and Wales, meeting the requirements of undergraduate law syllabuses. \nThe book sets out not only the legal rules, common law and statutes which relate to the field of civil liberties and human rights, but also the arguments and debates which have surrounded the development of an increasingly controversial area of the law, looking at the background principles underlying it, the coherence and consistency of the rules one to another and the social and political consequences of their application in practice. Particular attention is paid to the impact ;