Unblocking the Digital Economy Act 2010; human rights issues in the UK

The Digital Economy Act 2010: Is The DEA DOA?

The Digital Economy Act 2010 was hurried into existence in the dying days of the last Labour government, and contains powers designed to resist unauthorised file sharing that are due to be implemented by an Initial Obligations Code authored by Ofcom. Even before the Code has been published, there are several pre-existing key areas of the Act that contain significant evidential problems and pote...

Clinical practice and the UK Human Rights Act 1998: protecting individual rights in the interest of the wider community.

Health professionals have expressed concern that the UK Human Rights Act 1988, which came into force in 2000, may threaten their autonomy in clinical practice/decision-making and resource allocation by health authorities. Although healthcare-related cases have so far been slow to emerge under the Act, it seems clear that in clinical practice the transition from duty to legal obligation will inv...

Religious circumcision and the Human Rights Act.

The Regional Context of Human Rights in the Middle East

Human rights situation in the Middle East (ME) is a central concern in contemporary political as well as academic discourses. There is a considerable amount of literature on the subject, both academic and journalistic, in the Western world. A large part of that literature blames the ME in different ways for its ‘terrible’ conception and treatment of human rights norms. They typically, do not he...

What Privacy? The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act 1998 on Privacy Protection in the Workplace

Workplace privacy is generally recognised as one of the most contentious ethical issues in current debates in computer ethics. This paper will distinguish between two types of justification of privacy, namely privacy as intrinsic and instrumental value. By looking at different sources of privacy in English law, the essay will suggest that the legal protection of privacy is based on philosophica...