Linda Kelly

Keith D. Ewing

Communication Workers Union

Review of CWU

Tom Campbell

Adam Tomkins

The value and legitimacy of using courts to limit the powers of governments in the domain of human rights is a significant ongoing debate. This book provides a critical review that explores the alternative means for protecting and promoting human rights.

Sceptical Essays

The Legal Protection of Human Rights

C. A. Gearty

This work by the authors of 'Freedom under Thatcher: Civil Liberties in the UK' is designed to be used by students of law as a main text in courses on civil liberties or as a companion to other texts in courses on constitutional law.

Political Freedom and the Rule of Law in Britain, 1914-1945

The Struggle for Civil Liberties

The Bonfire of the Liberties is a provocative book which confronts the corrosion of civil liberties under successive New Labour governments since 1997. It argues that the last decade has seen a wholesale failure of constitutional principle and exposed the futility of depending on legal rights to restrict the power of executive government. It considers the steps necessary to prevent the continued decline of political standards, arguing that only through rebalancing political power can civil liberties be adequately protected Relying on extensive new research of inaccessible sources, the book examines the major battlegrounds over civil liberties under New Labour, including the growth and abuse of police power, state surveillance and counter-terrorist measures. It unfolds a compelling narrative of the major battles fought before Parliament and in the courts, and attacks the failure of the political and legal systems to offer protection to those suffering abuses of their civil liberty at the hands of an aggressive Executive. In doing so, it offers a definitive account of the struggle for civil liberty in modern Britain, and a controversial argument for the reforms necessary to contain executive power.

New Labour, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law

Bonfire of the Liberties

Keith D. Ewing

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