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06 February 2015 / Robert Weir KC
Issue: 7639 / Categories: Features , Human rights
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Book review: Human Rights Law (2nd edition)

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“Amos has done well to compress the case law on the Act into 178 pages without omitting reference to all of the key cases”

Author: Merris Amos
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781849463805
Price: £35.00

The Human Rights Act 1998 has had a profound impact on the law of England and Wales. It has led to an astonishing amount of litigation across all areas of law and is invoked in many, if not most, of the cases determined by the Supreme Court. It has occupied and strained judicial minds at the highest level from the moment it came into force in October 2000. And there is no sign of litigation involving the Act relenting any time soon.

Well-structured & informative

It is perhaps surprising, therefore, that there are so few textbooks covering the law generated in relation to the Human Rights Act. Two major textbooks, T he Law of Human Rights (Clayton and Tomlinson) and Human rights and practice (Lester, Pannick & Herberg) may vie for the title of the

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