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One key question which arises under the Human Rights Act 1998 is whether there is a constitutional convention of political compliance with declarations of incompatibility. This chapter provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of all the political responses to declarations of incompatibility in the first two decades of the HRA. It concludes that there is significant evidence of a constitutional convention in statu nascendi. Though the convention does not preclude the government and legislature from rejecting a declaration of incompatibility in exceptional and rare circumstances, there is a conventional and normative expectation amongst the key political actors that they are under an obligation to comply with those declarations in the normal run of affairs.

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This chapter discusses the protection of the right to vote in the Convention. It examines case law on restriction of the right to vote, in particular residence-based and nationality-based restrictions as well as the case law on voting rights of prisoners.

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12 - Declarations, Obligations, Collaborations

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7 - The Right to Vote

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12 - Declarations, Obligations, Collaborations

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7 - The Right to Vote

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