Employment Law and Human Rights (Blackstone's Human Rights S.) - Softcover

Allen, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841741396 ISBN 13: 9781841741390

Publisher: Blackstone Press Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

The Human Rights Act 1998 is already having a profound effect on the UK legal system. Blackstone's Human Rights Series is a collection of publications providing expert, practical advice for lawyers to meet this challenge, focusing on the implications of the Act in key areas of practice.Employment Law and Human Rights provides a comprehensive guide to the impact of the Human Rights Act on UK employment law.

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Synopsis:

The Human Rights Act 1998 is already having a profound effect on the UK legal system. Blackstone's Human Rights Series is a collection of publications providing expert, practical advice for lawyers to meet this challenge, focusing on the implications of the Act in key areas of practice. Employment Law and Human Rights provides a comprehensive guide to the impact of the Human Rights Act on UK employment law. It addresses the basic concepts of Convention law and provides a summary of the key Convention rights: Article 4: Prohibition of slavery and forced labour Article 6: Right to a fair trial Article 8: Right to respect for family and private life Article 9: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion Article 11: Freedom of assembly and association Article 14: Prohibition of discrimination Protocol 1, Article 1: Protection of property The Human Rights Act will affect employment law at almost every level: from decisions about what is reasonable in an unfair dismissal context to the procedure in the employment tribunal; from decisions about e-mail policies at work to discrimination against persons of different faiths.

This book aims to show how the Act might be relevant, what it can and can't do, and when and how a point should be taken under the Act.

About the Author:

Robin Allen QC is a barrister at Cloisters Chambers, specialising in human rights, employment, discrimination and public law. He is a member of the Bar Council and a Recorder. He is a member of the Justice expert panel on the European Union, the executive committee of the Discrimination Law Association, and the Disability Discrimination Representation and Advice Project. Robin was Council representative on the Home Office Human Rights Act Task Force 1999-2001 and Chair of the Employment Law Bar Association from 1997-1999. Rachel Crasnow is a barrister at Cloisters Chambers, specialising in discrimination law and employment law. She is on the panel of Legal Network Television and appears regularly before the EAT under the Employment Law Association Advisory Scheme (ELAAS). Rachel is co-editor of the Educational Law Journal's Case Commentaries

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1841741396
• ISBN 13: 9781841741390
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 406