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Our 1996 report Human Rights Legislation set out the different options for a Human Rights Act, including a model which did not give strike down powers for the courts. This was taken up by the Labour party in their 1996 policy document Bringing Rights Home, and then by the new Labour government in the 1997 White Paper Rights Brought Home. We then did work on the new structures in Westminster and Whitehall needed to support the new human rights regime, published as A Human Rights Committee for Westminster (1999) and Whitehall and the Human Rights Act (2000).
Projects associated with Human Rights Act:
Publications
The main outputs from the projects:
- Nicole Smith: Human Rights Legislation (Constitution Unit, 1996)
- Francesa Klug with Rabinder Singh and Murray Hunt: Rights Brought Home: A Briefing on the Human Rights Bill with amendments (Constitution Unit, 1997)
- Aisling Reidy: The Impact of the Human Rights Act: Lessons from Canada and New Zealand (Constitution Unit, 1999)
- Aisling Reidy: A Human Rights Committee for Westminster (Constitution Unit, 1999)
- Aisling Reidy: The House of Lords - in Defence of Human Rights (Constitution Unit, 1999)
- Aisling Reidy: The Impact of the Human Rights Act: Lessons from Canada and New Zealand (Constitution Unit, 1999)
- Jack Straw MP: Rights and Responsibilities in the New Democracy (Constitution Unit, 1999)
- Jeremy Croft: Whitehall and the Human Rights Act (Constitution Unit, 2000)
- Elizabeth Haggett: The Human Rights Act 1998 and Access to NHS Treatment and Services: A Practical Guide (Constitution Unit, 2001)
- Jeremy Croft: Whitehall and the Human Rights Act 1998: The First Year (Constitution Unit, 2002)
