Is There a Fundamental Tension at the Heart of the Human Rights Act?

5 Pages Posted: 16 Jun 2017

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Tamas Gyorfi

University of Aberdeen - School of Law

Date Written: June 14, 2017

Abstract

The present paper argues that the discontents with the existing system of human rights protection in the United Kingdom that was created by the Human Rights Act do have a valid core and it is not unreasonable to claim that the system has a built-in structural flaw.

Keywords: Human Rights Act 1998, ECHR, Human Rights, Constitutional Review

JEL Classification: K10

Suggested Citation

Gyorfi, Tamas, Is There a Fundamental Tension at the Heart of the Human Rights Act? (June 14, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2986007 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2986007

Tamas Gyorfi (Contact Author)

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