Human Rights and Judicial Review in the UK: A Critical Analysis

This item of assessment covers the following learning outcomes. For the full list of learning outcomes for the module, please refer to the Module Study Guide.

• Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of human rights in the UK through a critique of the Human Rights Act 1998 and its application by the courts.

• Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the grounds for judicial review and the procedures by which the decision-making duties and powers of a public body canbe challenged.

• Critically analyse and evaluate the UK’s constitution and human rights in the UK.

• Apply the grounds of judicial review and provide solutions to broadly defined and complex issues relating to the decision-making duties and powers of a public body.

• Accurately, clearly and appropriately communicate (C2 and C6).

• Produce rational arguments supported by relevant evidence (C2 and C4).

• Problem solving (C5).

1. Have you checked Canvas messages/announcements for any additional/final details of theassessment?

2. Are you submitting in the correct submission area e.g. if it is a resubmission of your second assignment it should be ‘AS2R’?

3. Make sure you are submitting the correct final version of your work.

4. Have you kept to the word limit? Remember, anything greater than 10% above the wordcount will not be marked.

5. Have you addressed the assessment requirements as outlined in the Assessment Brief?

6. Have you spell checked and proofread your work?

7. Is your work formatted correctly and consistently?

8. Are you submitting a document in the correct format?

9. Is your work written in an appropriate academic style?

10. Have you checked your citations and Reference List/Bibliography?

11. Have you submitted your work to get a similarity report to check you have paraphrased where required?

12. Have you read the Declaration of Authorship?

1.Plagiarism is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person as though it is one’s own. It is a form of cheating and is a serious academic offence which may lead to expulsion. Plagiarised material can be drawn from, and presented in, written, graphic and visual form, including electronic data, and oral presentations. Plagiarism occurs when the origin of the material used is not appropriately cited.

2. Collusion is working with someone else on an assessment task which is intended to be wholly your own work.

3. Contract cheating/Commissioning is where you contract out an academic assessment to writers and purchase back the finished work and submit it as your own.

4. Duplication/Replication is submitting the same material more than once for the purposes of obtaining academic credit.

5. Fabrication refers specifically to the falsification of data, information or citations in an academic exercise, typically an assignment. This includes false excuses for missing deadlines and false claims to have submitted work. It may be specifically referred to as falsification.

6. My completed assignment is submitted and checked for plagiarism through the use of plagiarism detection software called Turnitin.

This task has two parts, both must be completed. Your work should be submitted as a MicrosoftWord file.

Part 1:

Critically discuss the legality/illegality of indefinite detention on national security grounds vis-à-vishuman rights law in light of the judgement in A v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005]

The word limit is.

Part 2:

Reflect on the most interesting or important things you think you have learned in studying A v Secretary of State, and what is one thing you would have liked to learn more about in your Public Law course.