Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
CONTRACT, RESTITUTION AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998
Wilson
v. First County
Wilson
v. First County Trust Ltd
1
gave rise to both “issues of commercial and constitutional importance”.2
This note, given its context, will necessarily focus on the former. The incorporation of the liberties and rights enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights (“the Convention”) into the United Kingdom’s domestic law was a
1. [2003] UKHL 40; [2004] 1 AC 816; [2003] 4 All ER 97 (HL: Lords Nicholls of Birkenhead, Hope of Craighead, Hobhouse of Woodborough, Scott of Foscote and Rodger of Earlsferry).
2. At [146], per
Lord Scott.
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