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Democracy through law : selected speeches and judgments / Johan Steyn.

By: Steyn, Lord, 1932-.
Series: Collected essays in law. Publisher: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Dartmouth, c2004Description: xxii, 311 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0754624048 (hbk.).Subject(s): Law -- England | Democracy -- EnglandDDC classification: 349.42
Contents:
Acknowledgements. - Series Editor's Preface. - Introduction. - Part One: Theory and Practice. 1. A common bond. - 2. Does legal formalism hold sway in England? - 3. Pepper v Hart : a re-examination. - 4. The intractable problem of the interpretation of legal texts. - 5. Dynamic intepretation amidst an orgy of statutes. - 6. The role of the bar, the judge and the jury : winds of change. - 7. The value of dissenting judgments : Fisher v Minister of Public Safety and Immigration. - Part Two: Constitutional Law and Public Law. 8. The weakest and least dangerous department of government. - 9. The case for a Supreme Court. - 10. Creating a Supreme Court. - 11. Democracy through law. - 12. Constitutional principle in action : R. (Anufrijeva) v Secretary of State for the Home Department. - Part Three: Human Righta Law. 13. Human rights : the legacy of Mrs. Roosevelt. - 14. The case of Augusto Pinochet : a breakthrough : R. v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate Ex parte Pinochet Ugarte. - 15. The new legal landscape. - 16. The ethos of the European Convention on Human Rights : Brown v Stott. - 17. The centrality of the right to fair trial as a human rights norm. - Part Four: Humanitarian Law. 18. Guantanamo Bay : the legal black hole. - Part Five: Contract and Tort Law. 19. The role of good faith and fair dealing in contract law : a hair-shirt philosophy? - 20. Contract law : fulfilling the reasonable expectations of honest men. - 21. Written contracts : to what extent may evidence control language? 22. A kind of esperanto? 23. Perspectives of corrective and distributive justice in tort law. - 24. Immunity of suit of advocates : Arthur J. S. Hall Co. v Simons. - Part Six: Arbitration. 25. England's response to the UNCITRAL model law of arbitration. - Part Seven: Westminister Abbey. 26. Address at memorial service for the Rt Hon the Lord Williams of Mostyn Q.C. 20 January 2004. - Name Index.
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Main Collection Taylor's Library-TU

Floor 3, Shelf 9, Side 2, TierNo 2, BayNo 6

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Includes index.

Acknowledgements. - Series Editor's Preface. - Introduction. - Part One: Theory and Practice. 1. A common bond. - 2. Does legal formalism hold sway in England? - 3. Pepper v Hart : a re-examination. - 4. The intractable problem of the interpretation of legal texts. - 5. Dynamic intepretation amidst an orgy of statutes. - 6. The role of the bar, the judge and the jury : winds of change. - 7. The value of dissenting judgments : Fisher v Minister of Public Safety and Immigration. - Part Two: Constitutional Law and Public Law. 8. The weakest and least dangerous department of government. - 9. The case for a Supreme Court. - 10. Creating a Supreme Court. - 11. Democracy through law. - 12. Constitutional principle in action : R. (Anufrijeva) v Secretary of State for the Home Department. - Part Three: Human Righta Law. 13. Human rights : the legacy of Mrs. Roosevelt. - 14. The case of Augusto Pinochet : a breakthrough : R. v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate Ex parte Pinochet Ugarte. - 15. The new legal landscape. - 16. The ethos of the European Convention on Human Rights : Brown v Stott. - 17. The centrality of the right to fair trial as a human rights norm. - Part Four: Humanitarian Law. 18. Guantanamo Bay : the legal black hole. - Part Five: Contract and Tort Law. 19. The role of good faith and fair dealing in contract law : a hair-shirt philosophy? - 20. Contract law : fulfilling the reasonable expectations of honest men. - 21. Written contracts : to what extent may evidence control language? 22. A kind of esperanto? 23. Perspectives of corrective and distributive justice in tort law. - 24. Immunity of suit of advocates : Arthur J. S. Hall Co. v Simons. - Part Six: Arbitration. 25. England's response to the UNCITRAL model law of arbitration. - Part Seven: Westminister Abbey. 26. Address at memorial service for the Rt Hon the Lord Williams of Mostyn Q.C. 20 January 2004. - Name Index.