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    Democracy through law : selected speeches and judgments / Johan Steyn.

    • Title:Democracy through law : selected speeches and judgments / Johan Steyn.
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    • Author/Creator:Steyn, Lord, 1932-
    • Published/Created:Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlinton, VT : Ashgate/Dartmouth, ©2004.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Law--England.
      Democracy--England.
    • Description:xxii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Collected essays in law.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0754624048
    • Contents:1. common bond
      2. Does legal formalism hold sway in England?
      3. Pepper v Hart : a re-examination
      4. intractable problem of the interpretation of legal texts
      5. Dynamic intepretation amidst an orgy of statutes
      6. role of the bar, the judge and the jury : winds of change
      7. value of dissenting judgments : Fisher v Minister of Public Safety and Immigration
      8. weakest and least dangerous department of government
      9. case for a Supreme Court
      10. Creating a Supreme Court
      11. Democracy through law
      12. Constitutional principle in action : R. (Anufrijeva) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
      13. Human rights : the legacy of Mrs. Roosevelt
      14. case of Augusto Pinochet : a breakthrough : R. v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate Ex parte Pinochet Ugarte
      15. new legal landscape
      16. ethos of the European Convention on Human Rights : Brown v Stott
      17. centrality of the right to fair trial as a human rights norm
      18. Guantanamo Bay : the legal black hole
      19. role of good faith and fair dealing in contract law : a hair-shirt philosophy?
      20. Contract law : fulfilling the reasonable expectations of honest men
      21. Written contracts : to what extent may evidence control language?
      22. kind of esperanto?
      23. Perspectives of corrective and distributive justice in tort law
      24. Immunity of suit of advocates : Arthur J. S. Hall Co. v Simons
      25. England's response to the UNCITRAL model law of arbitration
      26. Address at memorial service for the Rt Hon the Lord Williams of Mostyn Q.C. 20 January 2004.
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