... be "no liberty".7 Thus, the following essay will seek to analyse The Human Rights Act 1998 and Devolution, two of the Blair government's constitutional reforms. The extent and impact of change will be assessed in relation to the rule of law and the degree to which the doctrine of Parliamentary supremacy, if at all, has been reconciled. The inclination, that "we have no need of a Bill of Rights because we have freedom"8, betrays the lack of a "systematic human rights regime"9 in the U.K. A fifty year failure in incorporating the ECHR into domestic law provided a long road Strasbourg to inforce individual freedoms, coupled with a poor record before it's court, as illustrated by Golder10 and the Sunday Times.11 The adoption of measures, such as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 198212 and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990,13 highlighted the progression of better protection ...

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