This paper begins with an outline of the basic human rights provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
and then presents an outline of the United Kingdom's Constitution and how it is supposed to safeguard against infringements of basic human rights. The paper follows this with an analysis of the ECHR's impact on UK jurisprudence and a discussion of some of the
positive effects of the ECHR. Outline Basic Human Rights Provisions of ECHR The Problem of an Unwritten Constitution The First Test of the ECHR Limited Impact over Time Neo-conservative Behaviour Regarding Justice Some Positive Effects of the ECHR Some European Findings in U.K. cases Freedom of Speech as a Human Right E-expression Law in the U.K. and the ECHR