TY - JOUR
AU - Burchill
AB -  Helen Fenwick, Gavin Phillipson and Roger Masterman (eds), Judicial Reasoning under the Human Rights Act (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), xxvii + 455 pp., ISBN 978-0-5218-7633-9, hb GBP 53. It is undeniable that the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) has brought about a major transformation to the UK's constitutional scene. The precise nature and extent of this transformation remains unclear, with the statute and its application constantly subject to significant debate and discussion. The extensive amount of words put to paper regarding the Act testifies to its impact, be it perceived or actual. While journal pages have been heavily inundated with commentary and analysis of the Act's impact and effects, it is only recently that book length treatments have begun to emerge. The collection under review is a welcome development in this regard as it brings together a number of leading commentators on the HRA, along with some judicial insight, to address the issue of judicial reasoning under the HRA. It is pointed out that the study of judicial reasoning is not a topical area for investigation in the UK as it may be in other jurisdictions, but at the same time as the HRA has brought about 
TI - Book Review: Judicial Reasoning under the Human Rights Act , by Helen Fenwick, Gavin Phillipson and Roger Masterman. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
JF - European Public Law
DA - 2010-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/kluwer-law-international/book-review-judicial-reasoning-under-the-human-rights-act-by-helen-vQFDpvGP7O
SP - 163
EP - 165
VL - 16
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -