The politics of the common law:perspectives, rights, processes, institutions
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Group Author: | ; |
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Routledge-Cavendish,
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Publisher Address: | London New York |
Publication Dates: | 2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | x, 416: ill. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780415481533 (pbk.) 0415481538 (pbk.) |
Index Number: | D956 |
CLC: | D956.1-05 |
Call Number: | D956.1-05/G292 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-407) and index. 'As a system ... the common law is a thing merely imaginary' -- Recording law's experience : features of the 'case' -- Institutionalising judicial decision making : the judicial practice of precedent -- The judicial practice of statutory interpretation -- The politics of the judiciary revisited : rights, democracy, law -- Racism and law : 'no dogs, no blacks, no Irish' -- Rights, politics and the law of the European Union -- Constituting human rights -- Human rights and the integrity of the law -- The general jurisprudence of human rights -- The jurisprudence of Article 6 : due process and the common law -- Imagining civil justice -- The principles of civil procedure -- Imagining criminal justice -- The principles of criminal procedure -- The politics of representation : legal aid, human rights and access to justice. |