Collected Essays in Law Democracy through law : selected speeches and judgments
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Book
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ISBN 10
0754624048
ISBN 13
9780754624042
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
2004
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Pages
xxii, 311 pages
Subject
English Constitutional Law
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Abstract
"In this collection of lectures and essays with seminal judgments, the author describes a gradual development of the United Kingdom as a constitutional state. Democracy through Law traces the recent phenomenon of the constitutionalisation of public law and analyses the present state of human rights law. Also discussed are topical international law issues including the Pinochet case to "Guantanamo: The Legal Black Hole".- Voila
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Content:
Part One: Theory and Practice. 1. A common bond -- 2. Does legal formalism hold sway in England? -- 3. Pepper v Hart: a re-examination -- 4. The intractable problem of the interpretation of legal texts -- 5. Dynamic interpretation amidst an orgy of statute -- 6. The role of the bar, the judge and the jury: winds of change -- 7. The value of dissenting judgments: Fisher v Minister of Public Safety and Immigration [1998] AC673, 686. Part Two: Constitutional Law and Public Law. 8. The weakest and least dangerous department of government -- 9. The case for a Supreme Court -- 10. Creating a Supreme Court -- 11. Democracy through law -- 12. Constitutional principle in action: R (Anufrijeva) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] 1 AC604, 618. Part 3: Human Rights Law. 13. Human rights: the legacy of Mrs Roosevelt -- 14. The case of Augusto Pinochet: a breakthrough: R. v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate Ex parte Pinochet Ugarte [2002] 1 AC 61, 111 -- 15. The new legal landscape -- 16. The ethos of the European Convention on Human Rights: Brown v Stott [2003] 1 AC 681, 706 -- 17. The centrality of the right to a fair trial as a human rights norm. Part Four: Humanitarian Law. 18. Guantanamo Bay: the legal black hole. Part 5: Contract and Tort Law. 19. The role of good faith and fair dealing in contract law: a hair-shirt philosophy? -- 20. Contract law: fulfilling the reasonable expectations of honest men -- 21. Written contracts: to what extent may evidence control language? -- 22. A kind of Esperanto? -- 23. Perspectives of corrective and distributive justice in tort law -- 24. Immunity of suit of advocates: Arthur J.S. Hall Co. v Simons [2002] 1 AC615, 675. Part Six: Arbitration. 25. England's response to the UNCITRAL model law of arbitration. Part Seven: Westminster Abbey. 26. Address at memorial service for the Rt Hon The Lord Williams of Mostyn QC 20 January 2004.
Part One: Theory and Practice. 1. A common bond -- 2. Does legal formalism hold sway in England? -- 3. Pepper v Hart: a re-examination -- 4. The intractable problem of the interpretation of legal texts -- 5. Dynamic interpretation amidst an orgy of statute -- 6. The role of the bar, the judge and the jury: winds of change -- 7. The value of dissenting judgments: Fisher v Minister of Public Safety and Immigration [1998] AC673, 686. Part Two: Constitutional Law and Public Law. 8. The weakest and least dangerous department of government -- 9. The case for a Supreme Court -- 10. Creating a Supreme Court -- 11. Democracy through law -- 12. Constitutional principle in action: R (Anufrijeva) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] 1 AC604, 618. Part 3: Human Rights Law. 13. Human rights: the legacy of Mrs Roosevelt -- 14. The case of Augusto Pinochet: a breakthrough: R. v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate Ex parte Pinochet Ugarte [2002] 1 AC 61, 111 -- 15. The new legal landscape -- 16. The ethos of the European Convention on Human Rights: Brown v Stott [2003] 1 AC 681, 706 -- 17. The centrality of the right to a fair trial as a human rights norm. Part Four: Humanitarian Law. 18. Guantanamo Bay: the legal black hole. Part 5: Contract and Tort Law. 19. The role of good faith and fair dealing in contract law: a hair-shirt philosophy? -- 20. Contract law: fulfilling the reasonable expectations of honest men -- 21. Written contracts: to what extent may evidence control language? -- 22. A kind of Esperanto? -- 23. Perspectives of corrective and distributive justice in tort law -- 24. Immunity of suit of advocates: Arthur J.S. Hall Co. v Simons [2002] 1 AC615, 675. Part Six: Arbitration. 25. England's response to the UNCITRAL model law of arbitration. Part Seven: Westminster Abbey. 26. Address at memorial service for the Rt Hon The Lord Williams of Mostyn QC 20 January 2004.
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Includes index.
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