Human Rights Joint Committee - Second Report
Work of the Committee in 2008-09

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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 15 December 2009.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Overview

Introduction

Our remit and core tasks

Overview of our work

2 The state of human rights in the UK

3 Legislative scrutiny

Scope of legislative scrutiny

Government amendments to bills

Statutory instruments

Pre- and Post-legislative scrutiny

Timeliness

Recurring themes

Quality of explanatory notes

Committee amendments to Government Bills

Civil society input into legislative scrutiny work

4 Thematic inquiries and other work

Core task 1: examination of policy proposals

UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Core task 2: emerging policy

Business and human rights

UK Bill of Rights

Policing and Protest

Freedom of expression

Core task 3: draft bills

Core task 4: specific output from the department

Prisoner transfer treaty with Libya

Core tasks 7 and 8: scrutiny of relevant public bodies and major appointments

Core task 9: implementation of legislation and major policy initiatives

UN Convention against Torture

Children's rights

UK law on genocide, torture and related crimes

Adverse court judgments

Counter-terrorism policy and human rights

Core task 10: debates in the House

5 Working practices

Recent changes

Informal meetings and visists

Following-up previous work

Relations with government

Informing Parliament

Outreach

International dimension

Annex 1: Sessional Return 2008-09

Annex 2: Summary of UK human rights developments in 2008-09

Annex 3: Committee amendments to bills

Annex 4: Note of JCHR conference on a Bill of Rights for the UK 22 April 2009

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Written Evidence

Witnesses

List of written evidence

Evidence sent to the Parliamentary Archives

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

20 January 2009
24 February 2009
2 December 2009
Written Evidence

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Prepared 15 January 2010