Human rights in the private sphere

CLAPHAM, Andrew

1996

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1996, Oxford monographs in international law

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CLAPHAM, Andrew, Human rights in the private sphere, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1996, Oxford monographs in international law - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76786

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The application of international human rights law to the private sphere has implications for the worlds of labor relations, race relations, discrimination and violence against women, and for victims of indignities everywhere. This study shows that respect for privacy need not mean excluding wrongs in the private sphere from the world of human rights. Concentrating on the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights, and their enforcement in the courts of the United Kingdom, it develops a coherent approach to human rights in the private sphere. In particular it challenges the presumption that the fundamental rights and freedoms contained in the European Convention on Human Rights are irrelevant for cases which concern the sphere of relations between individuals.

Table of Contents:

-- Introduction -- Part I The Different Ways in which the European Convention on Human Rights is Relevantor may become Relevant, in the United Kingdom Courts -- 1. The Relevance of the Convention in The United Kingdom Courts -- 2. The Relevance of the Strasbourg Proceedings For the United Kingdom Courts -- 3. Incorporation of the European Convention On Human Rights in the United Kingdom? -- Part II The Application of Human Rights in the Sphere of Relations between Non-state Bodies -- 4. International Human Rights and Private Bodies: Two Approaches -- 5. Limits to the Application of Human Rights In the Private Sphere -- 6. Fundamental Rights in the Private Sphere The United States and Canada -- 7. The Application of the European Convention On Human Rights to the Acts of Non-State Actors: the Case-Law of the European Commission and Court of Human Rights -- 8. The European Community Legal Order -- 9. A 'Private Police' for Human Rights In the Private Sphere -- 10. The Application of Human Rights in The Private Sphere in the United Kingdom -- Conclusions

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Published: 09 May 1996

Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76786

ISBN: 9780198764311

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Initial version: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/4600

Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1991

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