This LawMindMap covers key issues in the topic including:
- the UK's response to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR);
- the judicial and parliamentary dimensions of the Human Rights Act 1988;
- human rights legislation's impact on parliamentary sovereignty;
- issues of judicial deference to the European Court and Convention;
- proportionality tests, legitimate interference and derogations with individual rights;
- the horizontal effect of the ECHR and HRA.