This is the first full-length study of civil liberties in the United Kingdom aimed at students and written with their interests in mind. The book comprehensively covers existing systems which promote and protect civil rights in the U.K. and beyond. It analyzes in detail the many rights which are regarded as fundamental in the U.K. and in other systems of law.
Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge. Formerly Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham and Legal Adviser to the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Human Rights.