The Pursuit of Justice

ISBN-13: 9780199217090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 424 str.

Henry Woolf; Christopher Campbell-Holt

Opis

The Pursuit of Justice prints for the first time a collection of lectures and papers written and delivered by Lord Woolf since 1986, following his retirement in 2005 from the office of Lord Chief Justice and a judicial career that has spanned over four decades.
The papers cover developments that have occurred in a variety of legal areas, and which continue to be relevant in a changing world, including the rule of law and the constitution, the role of judges, access to justice, human rights, medicine, the environment, crime and penal reform, and legal education. Each paper discusses the challenges that have arisen in English common law in recent times and the way they have been solved or attempted to be solved to ensure that justice is done: so that arrests and searches are made properly; that there are fair hearings; readily available lawful remedies; and the removal of unnecessary costs and delays.

Recenzje

Lord Woolf has given shape and colour to British law and the legal system on a grand scale. He has with great distinction held office as Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice, and a Lord of Appeal. He has been an immensley influential judge across the whole canvas of law and the legal system. He has delivered many volumes of judgements that have changed and clarified law (often followed all over the Commonwealth), and has changed prison policy, completely redesigned the civil justice process (the Woolf Reforms), and presided over major criminal justice reform. In his support of the independence of the judiciary in the UK and other countries, he has acted with incalcuable energy.

O autorze

Lord Woolf is former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales; currently Privy Councillor and non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong; Bencher of the Inner Temple; Member of Blackstone Chambers; Fellow, Council Chairman and Visiting Professor of Law, University College London. Christopher Campbell-Holt currently works as a researcher at the international law firm, Norton Rose LLP. Chris is Consulting Editor and Director of Business Development of the legal philosophy journal, the UCL Jurisprudence Review, and has worked as a research assistant at the UCL Constitution Unit where he contributed to preparation for the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act for the Department of Constitutional Affairs; and at Landmark Chambers where he researched legal developments in the areas of property, planning and public law for Local Authorities & Human Rights, Drabble, Maurici, and Buley (OUP, 2004).