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• Title:Five ideas to fight for : how our freedom is under threat and why it matters / Anthony Lester.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lester, Anthony, 1936-2020 author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Oneworld Publications, 2016.
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: JC599.G7 L47 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Civil rights--Great Britain.
  Sociological jurisprudence--Great Britain.
  Human rights--Great Britain.
  Rule of law--Great Britain.
  
• Description:viii, 248 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:Human rights, equality, freedom of expression, privacy, the rule of law. These five ideas are vitally important to the way of life we enjoy today. The battle to establish them in law was long and difficult - as recently as 1970 two-hundred-thousand British Asians were almost stripped of their British citizenship as a result of racist legislation. From assaults on the EU Human Rights Act to the revelations about the NSA and GCHQ brought to light by Edward Snowden, our civil liberties are now under threat in ways they never have been before. Leading human rights lawyer Lord Anthony Lester provides an insider account of how political and legal reforms were achieved and demonstrates why we must act now to ensure they survive the next few decades.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781780747613 hardcover
  1780747616 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Human Rights
  2. Equality
  3. Free Speech
  4. Privacy
  5. Rule of Law.