Now available in paperback Over the years of the developing judicial review of ministerial and governmental decisions, Louis Blom-Cooper was a leading advocate who grew up with the advent of a distinctive brand of public law. His range of public activities, both in and out of the courtroom, saw him dubbed by his colleagues as a polymath practitioner. His activities included chairmanship of plural public inquiries in child abuse and mental health, media contributions in the broadsheet press and in broadcasting, and innovation in penal reform, as an ardent campaigner for the abolition of...
Now available in paperback Over the years of the developing judicial review of ministerial and governmental decisions, Louis Blom-Cooper was a leadin...
Throughout the twentieth century, administrations have wrestled with public concerns over national disasters and social scandals. The history and function of public inquiries are discussed here, depicting the dominant habit of lawyers up to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, ill-directed in 1998 for twelve-and-a-half years. The author became the legal representative for the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in December 2000, two years into the public inquiry. Modernisation of public inquiries took place in the Inquiries Act 2005, heralded as a good piece of legislation. The result is a system...
Throughout the twentieth century, administrations have wrestled with public concerns over national disasters and social scandals. The history and func...
