Joint Committee On Human Rights - Twenty-Third Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to be printed 17 November 2004.
CONTENTS
Summary
Bills drawn to the special attention of both
Houses
1 Constitutional Reform Bill
The effect of the Bill
The human rights implications of the Bill
The relevant human rights standards
The human rights issues
Judicial independence from the executive
The strength of the statutory guarantee of
judicial independence
Abolition of the office of Lord Chancellor
Judicial appointments
Judicial Discipline
Supreme Court budget and administration
Judicial Independence from the legislature
A separate Supreme Court
Parliamentary disqualification
A parliamentary committee
Diversity
2 Mental Capacity Bill
The human rights implications of the Bill
The human rights engaged
The human rights issues
Involuntary placement (clauses 5 and 6 and
28)
Compliant incapacitated patients: "the
Bournewood Gap"
Withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining
treatment
Advance decisions to refuse treatment
Withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment where
no advance directive
Research (clauses 30-33)
The "no alternative" criterion
The nature of the benefit
The nature of the risk of harm
The competent body
3 Housing Bill
4 Anti-social Behaviour Bill
5 Criminal Justice (Justifiable Conduct)
Bill
6 Domestic Energy Efficiency Bill
7 Doorstep Selling (Property Repairs) Bill
8 Organ Donation (Presumed Consent and Safeguards)
Bill
9 Prevention of Homelessness Bill
10 Rite of Passage (Welcoming and Coming
of Age) Bill
Bills not requiring to be brought to
the attention of either House on human rights grounds
Bills that raise no significant risk of incompatibility
11 Children's Food Bill
12 Domestic Tradable Quotas (Carbon Emissions)
Bill
Bills that raise no human rights issues
13 Private Members' Bills
Formal Minutes
Appendices
Appendix 1: Mental Capacity Bill
Appendix 2: Housing Bill
Public Bills Reported on by the Committee
(Session 2003-04)
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