Democracy through law : selected speeches and judgments

Democracy through law : selected speeches and judgments

Democracy through law : selected speeches and judgments

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Edition Details

  • Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Lord Steyn
  • Language: English
  • Jurisdiction(s): England
  • Publication Information: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlinton, VT : Ashgate/Dartmouth, ©2004
  • Type: Book
  • Series title: Collected essays in law.
  • Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/democracy-through-law-selected-speeches-and-judgments/ (Stable identifier)

Short Description

XXII, 311 pages ; 23 cm.

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Democracy through law : selected speeches and judgments is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

  • Publishers: Hampshire, England ; Ashgate/Dartmouth
  • Responsable Person: Johan Steyn.
  • Publication Date: 2004
  • Copyright Date: 2004
  • Location: Burlinton, VT
  • Country/State: England
  • Number of Editions: 6 editions
  • First edition Date: 2004
  • Last edition Date: 2005
  • General Notes: Includes index.
  • Languages: English
  • Library of Congress Code: KD358
  • Dewey Code: 349.42
  • ISBN: 0754624048 9780754624042
  • OCLC: 55845892

Main Contents

Contents: Introduction. Theory and Practice: A common bond; Does legal formalism hold sway in England?; Pepper v Hart: a re-examination; The intractable problem of the interpretation of legal texts; Dynamic interpretation amidst an orgy of statutes; The role of the bar, the judge and the jury: winds of change; The value of dissenting judgments: Fisher v Minister of Public Safety and Immigration [1998] AC673, 686. Constitutional Law and Public Policy: The weakest and least dangerous department of government; The case for a supreme court; Creating a supreme court; Democracy through law; Constitutional principle in action: R (Anufrijeva) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] 1 AC604, 618. Human Rights Law: Human rights: the legacy of Mrs Roosevelt; The case of Augusto Pinochet: a breakthrough: R. v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate Ex parte Pinochet Ugarte [2002] 1 AC 61, 111; The new legal landscape; The ethos of the European Convention on Human Rights: Brown v Stott [2003] 1 AC 681, 706; The centrality of the right to a fair trial as a human rights norm. Humanitarian Law: Guantanamo Bay: the legal black hole. Contract and Tort Law: The role of good faith and fair dealing in contract law: a hair – shirt philosophy?; Contract law: fulfilling the reasonable expectations of honest men; Written contracts: to what extent may evidence control language?; A kind of Esperanto?; Perspectives of corrective and distributive justice in tort law; Immunity of suit of advocates: Arthur J.S. Hall Co. v Simons [2002] 1 AC615, 675. Arbitration: England’s response to the UNCITRAL model law of arbitration. Westminster Abbey: Address at memorial service for the Rt Hon The Lord Williams of Mostyn QC 20 January 2004; Name index.

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