Civil Liberties and Human Rights in England and Wales [Paperback]

Written by one of the most highly respected academics on this field, this authoritative textbook provides a detailed account of the English law of civil liberties and human rights. It takes full account of the jurisprudence of the European Convention on Human Rights; discusses key legislation such as the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and analyses key cases including the conjoined twins and various cases involving immigrants and prisoners. The result is a coherent, detailed and comprehensive text for students and a valuable reference work for practitioners, and those interested in the protection of human rights and individual freedoms.

PART I. PUTTING VALUES INTO PRACTICE: THE NATURE OF CIVIL LIBERTIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS
c Some Basic Values: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and Autonomy
c Ways of Identifying and Protecting Rights and Liberties
PART II. LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PHYSICAL INTEGRITY
c Equality and Dignity
c The Right to Life
c Other Rights to Bodily Integrity
c Freedom From Arbitrary Stop, Search and Detention
c Rights Under Restraint: Detention of Prisoners and Patients
c Freedom of Movement Into and Out of Britain
PART III. PRIVACY
c The Scope of Legal Privacy
c Freedom From Unreasonable Entries, Searches, Seizures, and Surveillance
c Protecting Confidences
c Sex, Sexual Activity and Family Life
PART IV. EXPRESSION
c Freedom of Expression
c Media Freedom
c Restricting Expression to Protect the Security of the State
c Restricting Expression to Protect Mixed Public and Private Interests: Blasphemy, Obscenity and Indecency
c Restricting Expression to Further a Public Interest: Contempt of Court
c Protest and Public Order
c Human Rights, Liberty, and Political Will
1.I. Putting Values in Practice: The Nature of Civil Liberties and Human RightsThe Political Philosophy of Civil Liberties
2. Ways of Identifying and Protecting Rights and Liberties
3.II. Life, Lils)