The Nature Of Law And Human Rights 🌍 Flashcards
What are the two kinds of Human Rights ?
European Convention on human rights
UN rights
What are the European Convention on human rights protected under?
Human rights act 
What are the five examples of European Convention on human rights?
Right to liberty and security - Freedom - C
Right to assembly - Q
Right to a fair trial - C
Expression -qualified - restricted 🚫
private life -qualified
what is the meaning of Fundamental?
Rights Can never be restricted 🚫 
Give an example of an UN right
Health care 
What are the two types of human law ? 
Core - hard to restrict
qualified- Restrictions
What goes against the right of expression?
Harassment
Hate speech
discrimination
What are some examples of something going against the rights of a private life?
Defamation
What do judges do in human rights?
Interpret laws
What does the government do?
propose law
What do the House of Lords and the House of Commons do?
Make the law
How does the constitution work on the basis on in the UK? Between who? 
On the basis of the separation of powers
Between the executive - Government
legislature- HOL and HOC
and judiciary
What happened to the UK signed up to an international agreement?
Use their own law making methods to adopt theagreement 
How have the UK incorporated the European Convention on human rights ?
Though The creation of the human rights act 1998
What does the human rights act 1988 allow judges to do ?
Allows to judges to state that a national piece of law is incompatible With the ECHR and therefore must be adapted in order to still have legal status
What does incompatible mean?
Does not follow human rights law
What are the three cases under the impact of you conventions of human rights ?
Hirst v UK 🇬🇧
Wainwright v UK
A v SS for home department
What is Defamation ? What are we wanting ?
Tort - compensation or injunction
Where does defamation come from?
Defamation act 2013
What are three things needed to prove defamation?
- Defamatory statement 
- Statement Must identify the person
- Must be published
What is stage one of Defamation? 
what is a Defamatory statement?
What must it cause ?
Defamatory statement - 
Parmiter V Coupland - “Calculated to interfere with rep of another, by exposing them to hatred , ridicule or Contempt “
Must cause you serious harm
What case tells us what to we need to consider in stage one?
Lachaux V Independent print
Scale of publication
Evidence
Gravity of statement - how serious is the is the harm
Eurecro fuels V Szczecin- Includes financial loss
What is the second page of defamation?
What is this enough for?
Statement Must identify the person - enough that the reasonable person can tell who it is 
What is the third stage of defamation?
Statement must be published -
Websites - (Godfrey V Demon)
Tweets - (Monroe V Hopkins)
Blogs- (Cruddas V Adams ) 
What’s are the three Defences to Defamation?
S.2 Truth- Main substance of article is true
S.3 Honest opinion - Opinion that the reasonable person would have
S.4 Statement of public interest- Ecocomou V Defreitas -
key points -
test statement - check validity
Role of the Defendant-
reasonable belief - was in public unrest
Serafin V Malkiewcz - Time, tone , context , seriousness or artical
What kind of law is Breech of confidence ?
Common law - coco V Clarke
What is the first stage of breech of confidence ?
Info which has confidence in it -
Data parcel to you
Address medical Tax
What is the second stage of breech of confidence ?
D Obliged Keep it confidential - Government , solitaires safe guarding
Copy right info
What is the 3rd stage of breech of confidence ? 
Unauthorised use of data - Has to be accessed to it
TLT v SS home - home office - published der atoms of asylum seekers
What are the three defences to breach of confidence?
Necessary to safeguard
legal duty to do so
consent - AG v Guardian
What case comes from misuse of private info ?
Campbell V MGN - Protect all medical data - always private 
What case gives us a two-stage test for the misuse of private info?
Campbell V MGN
What is the two-stage test for misuse of private info?
- Did the claimant have a reasonable expectation of privacy?
Campbell - medical
PJJV News international - Impact on children
Reid V Price - Sexual life in the secret
- Does the claimants right to meet any privacy out with the public interest?
Jaggard V Darling - Unaware of CCTV
Mosley V News group International - Rights to private sexual life
S + M Outweighs with public interest
Richard V BBC - Raid - not in public interest
Murray V Express- protect the pictures of children not in public interest
What case does Trespass to land come from? Quotes ?
Entick V Harrington - “Every invasion of property”
“Wrongful interference with possessory rights”
What is the examples of trespass to land?
Crossing boundary
Remaining on land
going beyond what is expected on land
Putting items on land - league against cruel sports v Scott 
Airspace - Kelsen V Imperial Tabacco
Bellow land
What must we have for trespass to land ?
Must have Intent to do action - No intent to trespass 
What are the four defences for trespass to land ? 
Content
legal right gas electric water
Police PACE
necessity
What is Trespass ab initio?
Trespass after initial lawful entry
What is the first stage of trespass ab initio?
2 cases ?
Elias v Pasmore - seize evidence - must be linked with warrant
Chic Fashions v Jones - Look for and take anything
What act does harassment come from?
Protection of the harassment act 1997 
What kind of offence is harassment?
Summary offence - 4 months
Where is the Harassment found under? Definition ?
S.2 - A course of conduct which amounts to harassment to the defendant which the D knows or ought to know amount to harassment 
What is the first stage of harassment?
S. 7 at least two occasions
How far spread they are -
Pratt V DPP - Challenge within six months
What is the second stage of harassment?
Harassment - R v Curtis - Unacceptable oppressive to such leads criminal liability
Haydon V Dickenson-Is harassment persistent or deliberate
targeted at another
calculated to cause alarm for fear or distress can include
others impacted
Majroeski V Guy NHS - Can include work
What is the MR Of harassment?
DefendantMust to know that behaviour is harassment or ought to be- With a reasonable man believe
What are the defences to harassment?
Purpose of preventing or detecting a crime
Law that allows it
conduct is reasonable
What section and what year was malicious communication set in?
Section 1 1988
What is the two things needed for malicious communications? Under S.1
Send letters or other communications with intent to cause distress or anxiety
Must have a Message which be indecent and be grossly offensive
What is the mens rea of malicious communications?
Intent to cause distress or anxiety to those receiving (targeted)
What section is the second type of malicious communication?
Section 127 MCA 2003- A person sends electrical communications
Grossly offensive or indecent menacing characteristics
Caused any such message to be sent (not targeted) - anyone reading feel offended
DPP v Kingsley Smith- covers reposting of a message
Chabloz V CPS -
posting things on own YouTube channel
DPP v Collins - wouldThe reasonable person see it as grossly offensive
DPP v Bussetti - not Enough for it to be for bad or shockingly gross
DPP v Chambers - Bad joke - bomb airport
What is the mens rea of malicious communications under S.127?
Defendant intended his message to be grossly offensive - aware it might be
What is malicious communications for?
Summary offences 
What is obscene publications under?
OPA 1959/1964
What is obscene publications?
When an article is published which is obscene
Go through the first stage of obscene publications
what is an article?
Anything that can convey a message includes sound and picture 
 Go through the first stage of obscene publications
what is something that is published ?
Case?
Distributed or circulated -
R v Gavin Smith - Can only be one person
Go through the first stage of obscene publications
what is obscene?
3 cases ?
Seen to deprave or corrupt morality- morally rotten or unsound
Reasonable person sees it as morally wrong
R v Penguin books
R v Peacock 🦚 - nature of society hard-core gay BDSM - not enough
Handy side V uk 🇬🇧 - book recommended porn enough
What are the defences to Obscene publications ?
Public good - providing and Interest in science , literature , arts , learning
judged by reasonable person
What is the first section of the online safety act of 2023 ?
- S.179 - Offences of sending false communications
Send a message
False
at the time of sending person intended to cause
non-trivial (Not have to be extreme)
psychological
or physical harm