The politics of the common law:perspectives, rights, processes, institutions

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gearey Adam.
Group Author: Morrison Wayne.; Jago Robert.
Published: Routledge-Cavendish,
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.