Protection of Fundamental Rights Post-Lisbon: The Interaction between the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and National Constitutions (FIDE National Report for the United Kingdom)
47 Pages Posted: 7 Oct 2011
Date Written: October 7, 2011
Abstract
This is the United Kingdom national report for the FIDE XXV Congress on the 'Protection of Fundamental Rights Post-Lisbon'. The national report consist of answers from a UK perspective to questions posed by the general rapporteur on the following general topics: Nature and scope of fundamental rights protected; Horizontal Effect and Collision of rights; Consequences of the entry into force of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; Consequences of the accession of the EU to the ECHR; The future of fundamental rights protection, national and European, in the EU as an ‘area of fundamental rights’.
Keywords: ECHR, Charter of Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Rights in the UK, horizontal effect, accession EU to the ECHR
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