Essential Human Rights Cases

The implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 next year means that every UK lawyer will need to become familiar with the vast body of previous decisions of both the European Commission and the European Court of Human Rights.Edited by specialists in European law, Essential Human Rights Cases provides an inexpensive and easily accessible resource to meet this need. The work contains digests of over 300 of the most important cases, organised according to their subject area, and provides guidance on how they can, or cannot, be relied upon as precedent in domestic courts.This means that the book is a source of guidance on the issues that will be raised in the UK courts and an insight into how different cases have been dealt with in Europe.The editors are both experts in European law and write regularly on human rights issues including a column in the New Law Journal.