The European Convention on Human Rights
The status of the European Convention on Human Rights within the British constitution is discussed in Chapter 5. All that need be said here is that no issues concerning the legislative supremacy of Parliament arise from the way in which the Human Rights Act 1998 makes the Convention relevant to the English legal system.
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- The European Convention on Human Rights
- The European Court of Human Rights
- European Union law and the protection of human rights
- The status of Convention rights in English law
- A summary of Convention rights
- Legislative interpretation in the European Court ofHuman Rights
- From the Treaty of Maastricht to the European Charter of Fundamental Rights