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23 October 2009 / Professor Susan Nash
Issue: 7390 / Categories: Features
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Human Rights Law and Practice

The third edition of this book provides a comprehensive, coherent account of the background, content and application of human rights in the UK. It addresses every section of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) and the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention), and its First Protocol.

General Editors: Lord Lester of Herne Hill Q.C,
Lord Pannick QC and Javan Herberg

LexisNexis 2009, £230  (h/b) pp 974 ISBN 9781405736862

The third edition of this book provides a comprehensive, coherent account of the background, content and application of human rights in the UK.

It addresses every section of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) and the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention), and its First Protocol.

The editors and contributors are all acknowledged experts in the field. It is arranged in nine chapters with an appendix providing the text of HRA 1998, and relevant articles of the ECHR.

The text of each chapter is supplemented by extensive footnotes providing statements of judicial principle. The

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Secondments, disciplinary procedures and appeal chaos all feature in a quartet of recent rulings. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Smith, barrister and emeritus professor of employment law at UEA, examines how established principles are being tested in modern disputes
The AI revolution is no longer a distant murmur—it’s at the client’s desk. Writing in NLJ this week, Peter Ambrose, CEO of The Partnership and Legalito, warns that the ‘AI chickens’ have ‘come home to roost’, transforming not just legal practice but the lawyer–client relationship itself
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