Human Rights and Civil Liberties

"This book provides a wide-ranging and accessible text covering the main areas of civil liberties and human rights law as it applies to England and Wales. It is concerned with such areas as the rule of law and the powers and duties of police and other state agents, the freedom of the press, the extent of rights people have to act for political reasons, the ability of people to prevent the misuse of personal information or to protect their sexual privacy." The book sets out not only the legal rules, common law and statutes which relate to the field of civil liberties and human rights, but also the arguments and debates which have surrounded the development of this increasingly controversial area of the law. It looks at the principles which underlie it, the coherence and consistency of the rules one to another, and the social and political consequences of their application in practice.


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