What's wrong with the law?

What’s wrong with the law?

What’s wrong with the law?

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Edition Details

  • Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): Patrick Devlin, British Broadcasting Corporation., Michael Zander
  • Language: English
  • Jurisdiction(s): Ontario
  • Publication Information: Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1970
  • Type: Book
  • Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/what-s-wrong-with-the-law/ (Stable identifier)

Short Description

IX, 126 pages 22 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, What’s wrong with the law? is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

  • Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
  • Responsable Person: [By] Lord Devlin [and others; edited by Michael Zander].
  • Publication Date: 1970
  • Country/State: Ontario
  • Number of Editions: 16 editions
  • First edition Date: 1970
  • Last edition Date: 1970
  • General Notes: “Revised and edited version of nine talks in the Third Programme series, ‘What’s wrong with the law?’”
  • Languages: English
  • Library of Congress Code: KD654
  • Dewey Code: 340.0942
  • ISBN: 0773500863 9780773500860
  • OCLC: 128782

Main Contents

Introduction / Michael Zander
Need the law be obscure? / Sir Leslie Scarman
Is there equality before the law? / Anthony Lester
Is the law too rigid? / Norman S. Marsh
Does the law adequately protect the individual against the state? / J.R. Warren Evans
The legal profession / Morris Finer
Should accident cases be taken away from the courts? / Harry Street
Could the legal system be more humane? / Andrew Watson
Who is at fault when injustice occurs? / Lord Devlin
Tomorrow’s lawyers / William Plowden.

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