Research Catalog

Title

Bonfire of the liberties : New Labour, human rights, and the rule of law / K.D. Ewing.

Author

Ewing, K. D. (Keith D.)

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Description

xxiii, 310 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book confronts the corrosion of civil liberties under successive New Labour governments since 1997. It argues that the last decade has seen a wholesale failure of constitutional principle and exposed the futility of depending on legal rights to restrict the power of executive government. It considers the steps necessary to prevent the continued decline of political standards, arguing that only through rebalancing political power can civil liberties be adequately protected."--Jacket.

Subject

• Labour Party (Great Britain)
• Geschichte 1997-2010
• Since 1997
• Geschichte 1997-2010
• Civil rights > Great Britain
• Freedom
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1997-2007
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 2007-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The growth of police powers -- Surveillance and the right to privacy -- Freedom of assembly and the right of public protest -- Free speech and the national security state -- A permanent emergency and the eclipse of human rights law -- From detention-to control orders-to rendition -- Conclusion : power not rights.

ISBN

• 9780199584789 (pbk.)
• 0199584788 (pbk.)
• 9780199584772 (hbk.)
• 019958477X (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2010278541

OCLC

458730481

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library