Joint Committee On Human Rights - Nineteenth Report
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CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE
CONTEXT OF OUR WORK
The setting-up of the JCHR
The Committee at the end of the 1997-2001
Parliament
Committee staffing and resources
Relations with others
Parliament and its committees
The Government
The courts
Outside organisations and the wider public
3 LEGISLATIVE
SCRUTINY
The form of our conclusions on human
rights compatibility
The scrutiny process
Progress report or stand-alone report?
Two case-studies
The Asylum and Immigration (Treatment
of Claimants, etc.) Bill of Session 2003-04
Prevention of Terrorism Bill of Session 2004-05
Difficulties encountered by the Committee
Government responses
Criteria for prioritising Bills
Private bills
Pre-legislative scrutiny and draft bills
Recommendations on prioritising
Post-legislative scrutiny and delegated legislation
Remedial orders
Amendments of Schedule 2 to the Human Rights
Act
Amendments to Commons Standing Orders
Monitoring of declarations of incompatibility
and Strasbourg judgements
The effectiveness of our work
4 THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT
Human rights in Government and public
authorities
Deaths in custody
Human rights obligations of troops
Meaning of public authority
5 HUMAN
RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS
Commission for Equality and Human Rights
Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
Children's Commissioner for England
6 INTERNATIONAL
TREATIES
UNCRC
ICESCR
CERD
Implementation and dissemination
Incorporation, democratic legitimacy and
a UK Bill of Rights
Review of international human rights instruments
Ratification of human rights treaties
7 MONITORING
OF STRASBOURG JUDGMENTS AND DECLARATIONS OF INCOMPATIBILITY
Findings of incompatibility in Strasbourg
and Government responses
UK declarations of incompatibility and Government
responses
Recommendations
ANNEXES
Annex 1: The Committee's Standing Order
(House of Commons) and Orders of Reference (House of Lords)
Annex 2: Dates of (i) first JCHR report
and (ii) Second Reading in the Second House of Government Bills,
by Session
Annex 3: Public Bills: Reports by
the Committee by Session
Annex 4: Proposed Amendments to the
Human Rights Act 1998 and the Standing Orders of the House of
Commons
Annex 5: Summary of Procedure on Remedial
Orders
FORMAL MINUTES
APPENDICES
Appendix 1a: Letter from the Chair to
the then Leader of the House of Commons on drafting of legislation
and safeguards for human rights
Appendix 1b: Memorandum by the Lord
Chancellor's Department on drafting of legislation and safeguards
for human rights
Appendix 2: Letter from Yvette Cooper
MP, the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department,
responding to the Seventh Report of the Committee of Session 2001-02,
The Making of Remedial Orders
Appendix 3: Exchange of correspondence
between the Chairman and the Minister of State for the Armed Forces
re Human Rights Obligations of the Armed Services
Appendix 4: Letter from David Lammy
MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional
Affairs, to the Chair, dated 28 February 2005, responding to the
Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2003-04: The Meaning
of Public Authority under the Human Rights Act
Appendix 5: Correspondence relating
to the work of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
ANNEX: Response To 14th Report Of The
Joint Committee On Human Rights In The Session 2002-03
Appendix 6: Letter from Bill Rammell
MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, dated 30 November 2004, re the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Appendix 7: Correspondence between
the Chairman and Ministers relating to Judgments of the European
Court of Human Rights
Appendix 8: Memorandum from the Department
for Constitutional Affairs: Table of declarations of incompatibility
made under s 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998
Appendix 9: Exchange of correspondence
between the Chairman and the Minister of State, Department of
Health, relating to the declaration of incompatibility in the
case of M v The Secretary of State for Health
REPORTS FROM THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON HUMAN
RIGHTS SINCE 2001
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