The business of judging : selected essays and speeches

Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0198299125 
ISBN 13
9780198299127 
Category
United Kingdom  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2000 
Pages
viii, 434 pages 
Subject
Tom Bingham 
Abstract
"This book contains a selection of the essays and addresses written or given by the present senior law lord (Tom Bingham) over the last fifteen years or so , touching on a wide range of legally related topics." - Cover 
Description
Contents:
The judge as juror : the judicial determination of factual issues -- The judge as lawmaker : an English perspective -- The discretion of the judge -- Judicial independence -- Judicial ethics -- 'There is a world elsewhere' : the changing persperctives of English law -- Law in a pluralist society -- Speech on the jubilee of the Supreme Court of India -- The European Convention on Human Rights : time to incorporate -- Opinion : should there be a law to protect rights of personal privacy? -- The way we live now : human rights in the new millennium -- Tort and human rights -- Should public law remedies by discretionary? -- The old despotism -- Mr Perlzweig, Mr Liversidge, and Lord Atkin -- The courts and the constitution -- Anglo-American reflections -- The English criminal trial : the credits and the debits -- Justice and injustice -- Silence is golden : or is it? -- A criminal code : must we wait for ever? -- The sentence of the court -- Justice for the young -- The mandatory life sentence for murder -- Speech on the second reading of the Crime (Sentences) Bill -- Address to the Centenary Conference of the Bar -- Who then in law is my neighbour? -- The future of the common law -- Lecture at Toynbee Hall on the centenary of its Legal Advice Centre -- Address at the service of Thanksgiving for the Rt Hon Lord Denning, OM. 
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