On fantasy island : Britain, Europe and human rights PDF
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ON FANTASY ISLAND C O N O R G E A R T Y O N F A N T A S Y I S L A N D Britain, Europe, and Human Rights 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OXDP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©ConorGearty Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin Impression: Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer CrowncopyrightmaterialisreproducedunderClassLicence NumberCPwiththepermissionofOPSI andtheQueen’sPrinterforScotland PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber: ISBN –––– Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CRYY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. To Éile Úna ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The idea for this book first came to me when I was invited by the WyndhamTrusttogiveitsCorbishleyLecturefor.Ideliveredthe lectureonNovemberatLSE,underthetitle‘OnFantasyIsland’. IamverygratefultotheTrustfortheinvitationtogivethetalk,andto LSEforhostingit.Thebookthathasgrownoutofthatone-offeventis a culmination of conversations I have had over many years with colleagues and friends, about the Human Rights Act and its true meaning in UK domestic law. Prominent among these have been Jonathan Cooper, David Davis, Francesca Klug, John Phillips, and so many colleagues at the law department at LSE that it would be invidious to single out even a cluster of them for special mention. As ever my human rights graduate students have been a stimulus to deepthoughtinwaysthathavereallyhelpedevenwithouttheirfully knowingthistobethecase.ProfessorAoifeNolanhasreadthebook in draft from start to finish and I owe her special thanks for the extensive, helpful improvements that she suggested. On the web front,CarolineMocketthasbeenanimaginativeandvaluedcolleague increatingandthensupportingthewww.onfantasyisland.co.ukwhich welaunchedbeforethebookwaspublishedandwherepartsofithave beenregularlyposted.Iamgratefultoher,andtoAsmaaAkhtarand ZoePaxmanatLSE’sInstituteofPublicAffairsforhelpingmetoexploit theweb’spotentialsoastospreadtheideasthataretobefoundmore fullydevelopedhere.LastlyI’dlikeverymuchtothankOxfordUniversity Press,inparticularmyeditorAlexFlach,forsupportingthebookfrom thestartandforbeingsoopentofreshwaysofdisseminatingitscontent viathewebbeforeofficialpublication. vii TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface xi Part I. Introduction . Why the Human Rights Act Matters Part II. The Fantasies . The Myth of the MarvellousPast . The Seductive Power of the Present . The Inevitability of Human Rights . The Supremacy of the Human Rights Act . The Supremacy of the Judges . The Supremacy of Strasbourg . A Charter for the Bad Part III. The Facts . Protecting the Exposed . Making a Difference . Telling Us Who We Are ix
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