The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on evidence and disclosure in judicial review proceedings

Authors

  • Jonathan Bracken

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14296/ac.v2001i36.1323

Keywords:

Human rights, Evidence, Judicial review

Abstract

Article assessing the likely impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on the volume and nature of judicial proceedings in England and Wales including changes in relation to the evidence considered by the court and the growing need for the court to order disclosure. Article by Jonathan Bracken (Partner, Bircham Dyson Bell, London and Scholar in Residence US Law Library of Congress). Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

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Issue 36 (2001)

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