Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Judicial Power

"The controversial Human Rights Act WILL be axed, David Cameron vowed yesterday. The PM pledged to replace Labour's law with a British Bill of Rights"

- Deputy Political Editor, "The Sun"

This book is NOT about saving the Human Rights Act ...

It's about building a 'safety net' of basic entitlements which can never be taken away from us by any political party. That way, whatever happens to the Act, we will always have this net to fall back on.

Politicians of all major parties were recently embarrassed by an expenses scandal. And today, our Prime Minister is embroiled...

There can be no justice that is not spatial. Against a recent tendency to despatialise law, matter, bodies and even space itself, this book insists on spatialising them, arguing that there can be neither law nor justice that are not articulated through and in space.

Spatial Justice presents a new theory and a radical application of the material connection between space - in the geographical as well as sociological and philosophical sense - and the law - in the broadest sense that includes written and oral law, but also embodied social and political norms. More...

In the late 1960s, twenty-six-year-old Larry Denis Campbell was convicted of theft-a minor charge under Australian law. How, then, does he end up spending two years locked away in the Boggo Road Gaol, a prison notorious for physical and sexual violence? How can a deaf man even be convicted on the basis of fifteen trumped-up confessions? And most importantly, what does Campbell's experience say about justice in Queensland, Australia?

"The Dream Breaker" exposes the multilayered, systematic corruption that plagues Queensland's judiciary and penal systems. While in prison, Campbell lives...

There can be no justice that is not spatial. Against a recent tendency to despatialise law, matter, bodies and even space itself, this book insists on spatialising them, arguing that there can be neither law nor justice that are not articulated through and in space.

Spatial Justice presents a new theory and a radical application of the material connection between space - in the geographical as well as sociological and philosophical sense - and the law - in the broadest sense that includes written and oral law, but also embodied social and political norms. More...

In the late 1980s, a vigorous debate began about how we may best justify, in constitutional terms, the English courts jurisdiction to judicially review the exercise of public power derived from an Act of Parliament. Two rival theories emerged in this debate, the ultra vires theory and the common law theory. The debate between the supporters of these two theories has never satisfactorily been resolved and has been criticised as being futile. Yet, the debate raises some fundamental questions about the constitution of the United Kingdom, particularly: the relationship between Parliament and...