Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Defining and understanding the case against the Human Rights Act -- Part I The historical roots of the case against the Human Rights Act -- 2 The Magna Carta's tainted legacy: historic justifications for a British Bill of Rights and the case against the Human Rights Act -- 3 England's terror of the French Revolution: the historical roots of resistance to the Rights of Man and the case against the Human Rights Act -- Part II Sovereignty -- 4 An ingenious failure? The Human Rights Act 1998 and parliamentary sovereignty -- 5 Dialogue or diktat? The nature of the interaction between national courts and the European Court of Human Rights and how it influences criticism of the Human Rights Act -- 6 Taking sovereignty seriously -- Part III Controversial claimants under the Human Rights Act -- 7 Terrorist threats, antiterrorism and the case against the Human Rights Act -- 8 Deportation and the Human Rights Act 1998: debunking the myths -- 9 Welfare, anti-austerity and gender: new territory and new sources of hostility for the Human Rights Act -- Part IV The structural basis of hostility to the Human Rights Act -- 10 Moving away from common sense: the impact of the juridification of human rights -- 11 'Why should criminals have human rights?' The underserving rights holder and the case against the Human Rights Act -- 12 The Human Rights Act and the failure to construct a 'rights culture' in the UK -- Index