Richard Ekins and Conor Casey 

Richard Ekins KC (Hon) is Head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project and Professor of Law and Constitutional Government in the University of Oxford; Conor Casey is Senior Fellow of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project and Associate Professor of Public Law & Legal Theory in the University of Surrey

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Richard Ekins and Conor Casey 

The trouble with the Human Rights Act

The Human Rights Act (HRA), which is twenty-five years old today, has always been controversial. It unsettles the balance of the constitution, enabling judges, and lawyers, to attack policy and legislation in a way that is anathema to our constitutional tradition.  Introduced under Tony Blair in 1998, the HRA was intended to help guarantee basic