Horizontal Effect
This article refers to the British Human Rights Act. Horizontal effect should not be confused with Direct effect and indirect effect which are terms concerning the European Union or indeed vertical direct effect and horizontal direct effect which are variants of the Direct effect principle. The horizontal effect is also a feature recorded in psychophysics research into perception, similar to the Oblique effect
In British law the term horizontal effect refers to how the Human Rights Act affects litigation between private individuals even though it was primarily intended to deal with disputes involving a public body.
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