About the Author Richard Clayton is a practising Barrister at Devereux Chambers, Temple, and Hugh Tomlinson is a practising Barrister at Matrix Chambers, Gray's Inn; they have both been involved in a wide range of civil liberties and human rights cases. Product Description This book provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of human rights law and practice in the UK in relation to fair trial rights, including detailed analysis of the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998. It is the only book which provides a detailed analysis of this centrallyimportant Convention right, and is likely to be of interest to criminal practitioners, public lawyers and anyone involved in professional discipline or regulation. Review `stunningly good, both in ambition and execution. This is a remarkable work ... this is, to my knowledge, the only post-Act work that tackles the field in so comprehensively systematic a way.' A. T. H. Smith, Professor and Dean of Law, Cambridge - Criminal Law Review`That so comprehensive a book should have been produced by two such busy barristers has me marvelling at their quite prodigious industry. They have my envy almost as much as they have my admiration.' A. T. H. Smith, Professor and Dean of Law, Cambridge - Criminal Law Review