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Ashes and sparks : essays on law and justice /

"As a practising barrister, the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley wrote widely on legal and non-legal matters, and continued to do so after becoming a judge in 1992. This anthology contains classic articles, previously unpublished essays and lecture transcripts. To each, he has added reflections on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sedley, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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  • Victors' justice
  • Above it all
  • Reading their rights
  • From victim to suspect
  • Farewell sovereignty
  • No law at all
  • The sound of silence
  • The spark in the ashes
  • Wringing out the fault
  • Everything and nothing
  • Skulls and crossbones
  • Justice miscarried
  • Breaking the law
  • Declining the brief
  • Big lawyers and little lawyers
  • Parliament, government, courts
  • Judges in lodgings
  • Mice peeping out of oakum
  • Justice in Chile
  • Never do anything for the first time
  • Rarely pure and never simple
  • Law and plumbing
  • The laws of documents
  • The right to know
  • The moral economy of judicial review
  • Policy and law
  • Responsibility and the law
  • The Crown in its own courts
  • Human rights : who needs them?
  • Fundamental values : but which?
  • Overcoming pragmatism
  • Sex, libels and video-surveillance
  • This beats me
  • Public inquiries : a cure or a disease?
  • Human rights : a twenty-first century agenda
  • Are human rights universal, and does it matter?
  • Bringing rights home : time to start a family?
  • The four wise monkeys visit the marketplace of ideas.