Research Catalog

Title

Constitutional human rights in the Commonwealth / edited by Michael Anderson, Matthew Happold.

Publication

London : BIICL, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Happold, Matthew
• Anderson, Michael R.

Description

xxiii, 232 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

Human rights > Commonwealth countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Constitutional human rights and the Commonwealth: an overview / Michael Anderson and Matthew Happold -- 1. The role of human rights treaty standards in domestic law: the Southern African experience / John Dugard -- 2. The right to equality: some developments in the Commonwealth / Cyrene Siriwardhana -- 3. Freedom from torture / Fiona McKay -- 4. Forced labour in South Asia: an anatomy of judicial interventions / M. Siraj Sait -- 5. Obstacles to the realisation of the right to fair trial in Africa / Chidi Anselm Odinkalu -- 6. Judicial enforcement of the right to a fair trial in Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe and the role of international human rights law / Onkemetse B. Tshosa -- 7. Freedom of religion: recent developments in the Commonwealth / Matthew Happold -- 8. The right to property: Commonwealth interpretations / Andrew Harding -- 9. Standing up for human rights: the rules of standing and the protection of human rights within the Commonwealth / Loveday Hodson -- 10. Commonwealth practice on compensation for rights violations / Jeremy McBride -- 11. A common law of human rights?: Transnational judicial conversations on constitutional rights / Christopher McCrudden.

ISBN

0903067919

OCLC

• 52386066
• SCSB-10474471

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library