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Yelda Bilgi yeldabaris65a9 — BOOK REVIEW THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS - Sceptical Essays Edited by Tom Campbell, KD Ewing and Adam Tomkins Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-0-19-960608-5 www.oup.com HUMAN RIGHTS: A MIXED RECORD? An Appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers If you’ve ever had any cause to be sceptical about human rights, or rather, human rights legislation with many of its implications, whether UK-based or worldwide, then this book is for you. It contains a choice collection of ‘sceptical essays’ on human rights from 24 leading human rights scholars from around the world, encompassing not only the EU and the UK, but a number of other jurisdictions, including Australia, Canada, the United States and more besides. As the editors point out, the spirit of scepticism surrounding human rights issues in the UK has been fuelled by ‘the apparent paradox of a Human Rights Act being introduced by a government which then proceeded to go a long way to dismantle the very rights and freedoms which the Human Rights Act was designed to protect’. Underlining their point, the authors cite extended police powers of arrest and search…the extension of surveillance powers of local authorities (without the necessity of a warrant)…and the increased use of CCTV and the DNA database, said to be the world’s largest. There have been other disconcerting developments in response to, ostensibly, the ‘war on terror’, namely the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects without their being convicted, the use of control orders and the ugly suspicion of a lax attitude to torture. We must add here that at the time of the book’s publication by OUP in July 2010, the UK’s new coalition government had been in place for only about three months and, as we write in the first quarter of 2011, many of the above mentioned excesses have already been modified or dismantled altogether. Nevertheless, human rights continues to be a vexed issue requiring continuing vigilance and, yes, a spirit of enlightened and informed scepticism which this book exemplifies. The editors identify 2 kinds of scepticism here: ideological and institutional. Ideological scepticism revolves mainly around ‘doubts about the politically biased content of much of human rights law.’ Institutional skepticism focuses on the (very worrying) decline in recent years of the role of parliaments and the corresponding extension of the political role of the courts in interpreting and enforcing human rights legislation. In drawing attention to these concerns, this book has done a worthy service in adding argument and ammunition to this debate, the outcome of which will certainly affect us all. To aid further research -- as well as debate -- the book is meticulously foot noted and, for the convenience of practitioners, academics and students alike, there are copious tables of cases, treaties and legislation. So, the jury has gone out again with a new Bill of Rights committee, but it is a mixed record they are now reviewing.