ABSTRACT
As was stated in Chapter 3, it is unreal istic and indeed impossible for any student of English law and the English legal system to ignore the UK’s member ship of the European Union (EU). Nor can the impact of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) be ignored, espe cially now that the Human Rights Act (HRA) 1998 has made the Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) directly applic able in the UK.
