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 )