TY - BOOK ID - 137775925 TI - Parliamentary sovereignty and the Human Rights Act PY - 2009 SN - 1472560361 1282118978 9786612118975 1847314732 9781472560360 9781282118973 9781847314734 PB - Oxford Portland, Oregon Hart Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Legislative power KW - Constitutional history KW - Human rights KW - Great Britain. KW - Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannie en Noord-Ierland. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137775925 AB - The Human Rights Act 1998 is criticised for providing a weak protection of human rights. The principle of parliamentary legislative supremacy prevents entrenchment, meaning that courts cannot overturn legislation passed after the Act that contradicts Convention rights. This book investigates this assumption, arguing that the principle of parliamentary legislative supremacy is sufficiently flexible to enable a stronger protection of human rights, which can replicate the effect of entrenchment. Nevertheless, it is argued that the current protection should not be strengthened. If correctly interpreted, the Human Rights Act can facilitate democratic dialogue that enables courts to perform their proper correcting function to protect rights from abuse, whilst enabling the legislature to authoritatively determine contestable issues surrounding the extent to which human rights should be protected alongside other rights, interests and goals of a particular society. This understanding of the Human Rights Act also provides a different justification for the preservation of Dicey's conception of parliamentary sovereignty in the UK Constitution ER -