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

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Tobias Lock

Maynooth University Department of Law

Patrick Layden

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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

Suggested Citation

Lock, Tobias and Layden, Patrick, 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) (October 7, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1940381 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1940381

Tobias Lock (Contact Author)

Maynooth University Department of Law ( email )

Maynooth, County Kildare
Ireland

Patrick Layden

affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )

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