Joint Committee on Human Rights - Thirty-First 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 7 October 2008.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
Structure and acknowledgements
2 Developments during 2007-08
The Government response
Our evolving approach to human rights judgments
3 The increasing importance of national
implementation measures
Recent work of the Committee of Ministers
Scrutiny by the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe
Annual Report on the Execution of Judgments
4 Issues monitored by the Committee
Recent judgments against the United Kingdom
Access to artificial insemination (Dickson
v UK)
Controlling Membership of Trade Unions (ASLEF
v UK)
Issues previously monitored
Prisoners' voting rights (Hirst v UK)
Delays in implementation
Investigations of the use of lethal force
(McKerr, Jordan, Finucane, Kelly, Shanaghan, Kelly and McShane
v UK)
Security of tenure for Gypsies and Travellers
(Connors v UK)
Corporal punishment of children (A v UK)
5 Declarations of Incompatibility
Is a declaration of incompatibility an effective
remedy?
Issues previously monitored by the Committee
Discrimination in access to social housing
(Morris v Westminster City Council)
Religious discrimination in sham marriages
regime (Baiai v Secretary of State for the Home Department)
Nationality discrimination in early release
of prisoners (Clift and Hindawi v Secretary of State for the Home
Department)
Prisoners' voting rights (Smith v Electoral
Registration Officer)
6 Obstacles to Effective Implementation
Gender discrimination in widow's benefits
Discrimination in access to state pensions
for citizens resident overseas
Conclusions and Recommendations
Formal Minutes
Written Evidence
1: Letter from Michael Wills MP to the Chair,
14 August 2007
2: Letter from the Chairman to Rt Hon Jack
Straw MP, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor,
5 June 2008
3: Letter to the Rt Hon Jacqui Smith MP,
Home Secretary, 28 March 2008
4: Letter from Paul Goggins MP, Minister
of State for Northern Ireland, 10 April 2008
5: Letter to Rt Hon John Hutton MP, Secretary
of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, 28 January
2008
6: Letter to Chairman from the Rt Hon John
Hutton MP, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform, 30 April
7: Letter from the Chairman to Rt Hon David
Hanson MP, Minister of State, Minister of Justice, 9 January 2008
8: Letter from Rt Hon David Hanson MP, Minister
of State, Ministry of Justice, 19 January 2008
9: Letter from the Chairman to Rt Hon David
Hanson MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, 27 May 2008
10: Letter to the Chairman from Rt Hon David
Hanson MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, 9 June 2008
11: Letter from the Chairman to Rt Hon David
Hanson MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, 18 June 2008
12: Letter from the Chair to Michael Wills
MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, 20 September 2007
13: Letter from Bridget Prentice MP, Parliamentary
Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice, 11 October 2007
14: Letter from the Char to Bridget Prentice
MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice
15: Letter from Bridget Prentice MP, Parliamentary
Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice, 11 April 2008
16: Note to Committee of Ministers from the
Ministry of Justice, 14 March 2008
17: Memorandum from British Irish Rights
Watch, 18 June 2008
18: Letter from British Irish Rights Watch
to Chairman, 12 October 2007
19: Memorandum from Dame Mary Marsh, Director
and Chief Executive, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, 4 July 2008
20: Memorandum from the Children's Commissioner
for England, 4 July 2008
21: Letter from the Chair to Rt Hon Jack
Straw, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, 27
May 2008
22: Letter from Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Secretary
of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, 5 June 2008
23: Letter from Baroness Andrews OBE, Parliamentary
Under Secretary of State, Department of Communities and Local
Government
24: Letter from the Chairman to Baroness
Andrews, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of
Communities and Local Government, 7 July 2008
25: Letter from Liam Byrne MP, Minister of
State, Home Office, 8 August 2008
26: Letter to Liam Byrne MP, Minister of
State, Home Office, 28 March 2008
27: Letter to the Chairman from Liam Byrne
MP, Minister of State, Home Office, 28 May 2008
28: ECtHR Statistics: Rule 49 applications
and the UK
29: Letter to Rt Hon James Purnell MP, Secretary
of State for Work and Pensions, 28 March 2008
30: Letter from Stephen Timms, Minister of
State, Department for Work and Pensions, 25 April 2008
31: Letter to Chairman from Steven Timms
MP, Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, 8 May
2008
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