Research Catalog

Title

The pursuit of justice / Lord Woolf ; edited by Christopher Campbell-Holt.

Author

Woolf, Harry, Sir, 1933-

Publication

Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Campbell-Holt, Christopher.

Description

xii, 436 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This volume prints a collection of updated 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 covered part of all of the last four decades.

Subject

• Geschichte
• Rule of law > Great Britain
• Justice, Administration of > Great Britain
• Constitutional law > Great Britain
• Judicial power > Great Britain
• Judicial review > Great Britain
• Constitutional law
• Judicial power
• Judicial review
• Justice, Administration of
• Rule of law
• Justizreform
• Rechtsreform
• Rechtsstaatsprinzip
• Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. The English legal system. 1. A question of balance -- 2. Remedies -- 3. Droit public : English style -- 4. The education the justice system requires today -- II. The Constitution and the judiciary. 5. Magna Carta : a precedent for recent constitutional change -- 6. The rule of law and a change in the Constitution -- 7. Judicial review : the tensions between the executive and the judiciary -- 8. Should the media and the judiciary be on speaking terms? -- 9. Judicial independence not judicial isolation -- 10. The needs of a 21st century judge -- 11. Current challenges in judging -- 12. The impact of human rights -- 13. Human rights and minorities -- III. Crime and penal reform. 14. The Strangeways Prison report : overview -- 15. Strangeways : a decade of change? -- 16. A justice system the community owns -- 17. Do we need a new approach to penal policy? -- 18. Making sense of sentencing -- IV. Civil justice. 19. Access to justice final report : overview -- 20. Medics, lawyers and the courts : a defence of the access to justice recommendations -- 21. Are the courts excessively deferential to the medical profession? -- 22. Are the judiciary environmentally myopic? -- 23. Environmental law and sustainable development -- V. International legal systems. 24. The international role of the judiciary -- 25. The rule of law and the development of a modern economy in China -- 26. The rule of law and harmony in China.

ISBN

• 9780199217090
• 0199217092

LCCN

2008004178

OCLC

• ocn192045510
• 192045510
• SCSB-8872556

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library