House Of Lords House Of Commons Joint Committee On Human Rights Legislative Scrutiny Offender Rehabilitation Bill Hl 80 Hc 829

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 48 pages
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Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0108551512

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House of Lords - House of Commons - Joint Committee on Human Rights: Legislative Scrutiny: Offender Rehabilitation Bill - HL 80 - HC 829 by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

This report welcomes the Bill's potentially human rights enhancing objectives of taking measures to protect the public from crime, at the same time as focusing on rehabilitation and extending positive support to those vulnerable people who receive short-term prison sentences. However, it remains concerned that insufficient information was provided by the Government (i) to demonstrate the compatibility of the provisions of the Bill with relevant international standards other than the ECHR and (ii) to support its assertion that the proposals have been considered fully in line with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010. The Committee calls on the Government to publish the information which demonstrates this without delay. The Committee welcomes the Government's assurance that private providers of probation services are obliged to act compatibly with human rights law but recommends that there should be statutory provision in the Bill setting out the providers' duties. The Committee calls on the Government to develop clear guidance on the human rights obligations of private probation providers, and to set out how it will monitor the performance of the contracted providers in this regard

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 48 pages
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Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0108553442

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House of Lords - House of Commons - Joint Committee on Human Rights: Legislative Scrutiny: Immigration Bill (Second Report) - HL142, HC 1120 by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

The Joint Committee on Human Rights accepts that the measures in the Immigration Bill serve the legitimate aim of immigration control, but is concerned that some of them may be applied in practice in a way which breaches human rights in particular cases. The Committee is particularly concerned about the risk of the new provisions relating to residential tenancies giving rise in practice to homelessness in the case of people who have no right to remain in the UK but face genuine barriers to leaving. The Committee is also concerned to ensure that these measures do not give rise to an undue risk that migrant children will be exposed to homelessness or separation from family members. The provisions in the Bill on access to residential tenancies may heighten the risk of racial discrimination against prospective tenants, notwithstanding the fact that such discrimination is unlawful under the Equality Act. The First Tier Tribunal, not the Secretary of State, should decide whether it is within

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 88 pages
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Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 0108551636

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House of Lords - House of Commons - Joint Committee on Human Rights: The Implications for Access to Justice of the Government's Proposals to Reform Legal Aid - HL 100 - HC 766 by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

The report The Implications For Access To Justice Of The Government's Proposals To Reform Legal Aid (HL100, HC 766) concludes that the government should reconsider its proposals for the reform of legal aid. The government has so far made welcome exemptions to its proposed residence test in the light of responses to its consultation, but the Committee is still not satisfied that the proposed test will not affect vulnerable groups. While accepting that it is legitimate for the government to introduce a residence test for civil legal aid and to restrict the scope of prison law funding, the Committee calls for more and broader exemptions from these proposals to avoid breaches of the fundamental right of effective access to justice in individual cases. The exceptional funding framework may not be working as intended and could therefore leave certain groups unable to access legal aid when human rights law requires it. The proposal to remove cases with

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 56 pages
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Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0108551687

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House of Lords - House Of Commonos - Joint Commmittee on Human Rights: Legislative Scrutiny: Immigration Bill - HL 102 - HC 935 by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

The Joint Committee on Human Rights accepts that the measures in the Immigration Bill serve the legitimate aim of immigration control, but is concerned that some of them may be applied in practice in a way which breaches human rights in particular cases. The Committee is particularly concerned about the risk of the new provisions relating to residential tenancies giving rise in practice to homelessness in the case of people who have no right to remain in the UK but face genuine barriers to leaving. The Committee is also concerned to ensure that these measures do not give rise to an undue risk that migrant children will be exposed to homelessness or separation from family members. The provisions in the Bill on access to residential tenancies may heighten the risk of racial discrimination against prospective tenants, notwithstanding the fact that such discrimination is unlawful under the Equality Act. The First Tier Tribunal, not the Secretary of State, should decide whether it is within its jurisdiction to consider a new matter raised on an appeal. In the report, the Committee concludes that the restriction on appeal rights might constitute a serious threat to the practical ability to access the legal system to challenge unlawful immigration and asylum decisions, and to enforce the statutory duty to have regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children when exercising immigration and asylum functions. The Committee also comments on other aspects of the Bill.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780104007785

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Legislative Scrutiny by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

Legislative Scrutiny : Equality Bill, fourth report of session 2005-06, report, together with formal minutes and Appendix

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0108459268

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Legislative scrutiny by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

The Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill was re-introduced in the House of Commons on 19 November 2009 and the Committee welcomes a number of aspects of the Bill which is implementing some of the commitments made by the Prime Minister in his Governance of Britain statement in July 2007. But the Committee considers there are a number of significant omissions from the Bill including in relation to judicial appointments, parliamentary scrutiny of security and intelligence matters, and the restrictive judicial interpretation of the meaning of public function in the Human Rights Act. They recommend amendments relating to the latter two points. They also look at Protest around Parliament, Ratification of Treaties and Right to a fair hearing and access to a court in the determination of civil rights.The Video Recordings Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 15 December 2009 and is a fast track piece of legislation which repeals and revives the provisions of the Video Recordings Act 1984 in order to enable them to be notified to the European Commission under the Technical Standards Directive and so secure its enforceability. The Committee considers the human rights issues raised by this Bill should be subjected to parliamentary scrutiny. However as the 1984 Act, serves as an important child protection purpose, that are currently unenforceable, the Committee accepts the need for fast tracking this legislation and does not propose to further scrutinise this Bill.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 0108473007

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Legislative scrutiny by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

The Public Bodies Bill (HL Bill 25, ISBN 9780108478765) proposes to create a number of delegated powers by which the Government can abolish, merge, modify the constitution, functions or budgetary arrangements or a body or authorise delegation of a body's functions to a third person or body. Several other committees have expressed concern about the extreme breadth of the delegated powers proposed, and this report outline's three significant human rights issues arising from the Bill. First is the independence and impartiality of bodies protecting and promoting human rights. The inclusion of bodies such as the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Children's Commissioner, the Inspectorate of Prisons and the Legal Services Commission in the schedules to the Bill may undermine their functional or perceived independence. Secondly, the Committee is concerned that the abolition or reform of other bodies which serve a particular decision making function may undermine the right to procedural fairness. Thirdly, the breadth of delegation proposed in the Bill appears wholly inappropriate, and the excessive use of delegated powers may reduce the effectiveness of parliamentary scrutiny for human rights compatibility of proposed legislation.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights,Great Britain. Ministry of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0101762828

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Legislative Scrutiny by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights,Great Britain. Ministry of Justice Pdf

Responses to HLP 68/HCP 395, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780104425046) and HLP 81/HCP 441, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780104425138)

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN : 0104010207

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Legislative Scrutiny by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

The Committee's report examines the human rights implications of both government and private bills before Parliament, in accordance with the new legislative scrutiny sifting system which it has adopted from the beginning of the 2006-07 parliamentary session. The report draws the special attention of both Houses to two Government bills in relation to: i) three groups of significant human rights issues concerning the Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill (HCB 10, session 2006-07, ISBN 9780215707956), regarding: juries and non-jury trials, the powers of the Northern Ireland Rights Commission, and additional powers for the police and the Army; and ii) the powers of enforcement agents proposed by the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill (HLB 5, session 2006-07, ISBN 9780108435508).

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-30
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN : 0104010754

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Legislative Scrutiny by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

The Committee examine the human rights implications of all government and private bills. This, the seventh progress report of the session, recommends changes to the Mental Health Bill and records the view that the Rating (Empty Properties) Bill raises no human rights issues. The Mental Health Bill was reported upon at an earlier stage (HLP 40/HC 288 2006-07). This report is a response to the Government reply and points arising in debate in the Commons.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-21
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 0104010703

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Legislative Scrutiny by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

The Committee's report draws the attention of both Houses to the human rights implications of the UK Borders Bill (HLB 68, session 2006-07, ISBN 9780108436147) including provisions relating to: new powers for Immigration Officers to detain, search and seize; the proposed biometric registration scheme for non-EEA nationals giving rise to concerns about de facto racial profiling; and the automatic deportation of foreigners convicted of criminal offences. The Committee also comments on correspondence received regarding the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (HCB 77, session 2006-07, ISBN 9780215708441) and makes recommendations for specific amendments to the Bill in line with its earlier report (HLP 83/HCP 424, session 2006-07, ISBN 9780104010464) on the matter.

Author : Stephen Gardbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107009288

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The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism by Stephen Gardbaum Pdf

Stephen Gardbaum proposes and examines a new way of protecting rights in a democracy.

Author : Charles D. Raab,Benjamin Jervis Goold,University of Edinburgh,University of British Columbia,Great Britain. Equality and Human Rights Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Data protection
ISBN : 1842063472

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Protecting Information Privacy by Charles D. Raab,Benjamin Jervis Goold,University of Edinburgh,University of British Columbia,Great Britain. Equality and Human Rights Commission Pdf

Author : Anthony Lester
Publisher : Institute for Public Policy Research
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Law
ISBN : 1872452183

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A British Bill of Rights by Anthony Lester Pdf

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0108475719

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Privacy and injunctions by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions Pdf

This report says Parliament should not introduce any new privacy statute. It concludes that in weighing the competing rights to privacy and freedom of expression, each case must be judged on its own merits. The bar for limiting freedom of expression must be set high, but the courts are now striking a better balance in dealing with applications for privacy injunctions. Criticism that privacy law has been "judge-made", noting that it evolved from the Human Rights Act is rejected. The Committee says the most important step towards improving protection of privacy is to provide for enhanced regulation of the media. The Press Complaints Commission lacked the power, sanctions or independence to be truly effective. Substantial changes to press regulation are needed to ensure that it encompasses all major news publishers including, in time, major bloggers. The Committee makes several recommendations including that the reformed regulator should: have access to a wider range of sanctions, including the power to fine; be cost-free to complainants; be able to determine the size and location of a published apology, and the date of publication; play a greater role in arbitrating and mediating privacy disputes. One possible mechanism the Committee suggests is for advertisers to agree to advertise only in publications that are members of the press regulator and subscribe to its rules. It also concludes that parliamentarians should ensure that material subject to an injunction is only revealed in Parliament when there is good reason to do so