The Civil Contingencies ACT 2004: Risk, Resilience and the Law in the United Kingdom

ISBN-13: 9780199296262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str.

Clive Walker

Opis

This book provides a detailed exploration of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and its supporting documentation. It describes and analyses recent changes by providing a full commentary on all parts of the Act.

O autorze

Professor Clive Walker is Professor of Criminal Justice Studies at the School of Law, University of Leeds. He has written extensively on criminal justice, civil liberties and media issues. His books have focused upon terrorism, including (with Hogan, G.,) Political Violence and the Law in Ireland (Manchester University Press, 1989) and The Prevention of Terrorism in British Law 2/e (Manchester University Press, 1992), Blackstone's Guide to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation (OUP, 2002), and upon miscarriages of justice, including; (with Keir Starmer), Justice in Error (Blackstone Press, London, 1993) and Miscarriages of Justice (Blackstone Press, London, 1999). Dr Jim Broderick is Director of MSc. Programme in Emergency Planning Management and Lecturer in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management. Formerly he was a lecturer in strategic studies and U.S. foreign policy and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a visiting lecturer in U.S. defence and security policy at the University of Birmingham.