This book offers an introduction to the English legal system that places the law in its contemporary context. Unlike other conventional accounts, it presents a coherent argument, organised around the central claim that modern law must be understood as an articulation of human rights and due process values.
This book offers an introduction to the English legal system that places the law in its contemporary context. Unlike other conventional accounts, it presents a coherent argument, organised around the central claim that modern law must be understood as an articulation of human rights and due process values.
Dr. Adam Gearey is a reader in law, Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been a visiting professor in the Faculty of Law at Makerere University, Uganda; the University of Pretoria, South Africa and the University of Peace, Costa Rica. He has also been a visiting fellow in the Center for Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. Professor Wayne Morrison LLD, PhD, LLM, LLB, (Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand) is Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of London and former Director of the University of London's International Programmes for Law Robert Jago MPhil. (cantab.) is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of the School of Law at the University of Surrey. He is also a regular visitor to HKU SPACE where he teaches Public Law.
Inhaltsangabe
Authors' acknowledgements Publisher's acknowledgements 1. Introduction Part I - The politics of the Common Law: perspectives rights processes Institutions 2. Introduction Part II - Procedural Fairness the Rule of Law and Due Process 3. 'As a system...the common law is a thing merely imaginary' 4. Recording law's experience: features of the 'case' 5. The postcolonial the visible and the invisible: the normal and the exceptional 6. Institutionalizing Judicial Decision Making: Public Reason and the Doctrine of Precedent 7. What We Talk About When We Talk About Common Law: The Practice of Precedent 8. The Mirror and the Dialogue: The Common Law Strasbourg and Human Rights 9. The judicial practice of statutory interpretation 10. The Politics of the Judiciary Revisited: rights democracy law 11. Judges and Democracy 12. The Integrity of the Court: Judgment and the Prohibition on Bias 13. The Value of Participation: The Rights of the Defence Equality of Arms and Access to Justice 14. Open Justice Closed Procedures and Torture Evidence 15. Imagining Civil Justice 16. Imagining Criminal Justice 17. Conclusion
Authors' acknowledgements Publisher's acknowledgements 1. Introduction Part I - The politics of the Common Law: perspectives rights processes Institutions 2. Introduction Part II - Procedural Fairness the Rule of Law and Due Process 3. 'As a system...the common law is a thing merely imaginary' 4. Recording law's experience: features of the 'case' 5. The postcolonial the visible and the invisible: the normal and the exceptional 6. Institutionalizing Judicial Decision Making: Public Reason and the Doctrine of Precedent 7. What We Talk About When We Talk About Common Law: The Practice of Precedent 8. The Mirror and the Dialogue: The Common Law Strasbourg and Human Rights 9. The judicial practice of statutory interpretation 10. The Politics of the Judiciary Revisited: rights democracy law 11. Judges and Democracy 12. The Integrity of the Court: Judgment and the Prohibition on Bias 13. The Value of Participation: The Rights of the Defence Equality of Arms and Access to Justice 14. Open Justice Closed Procedures and Torture Evidence 15. Imagining Civil Justice 16. Imagining Criminal Justice 17. Conclusion
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