Thinking about Statutes
Thinking about Statutes

Author: Andrew Burrows

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781108465786

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We are in the age of statutes; and it is indisputable that statutes are swallowing up the common law. Yet the study of statutes as a coherent whole is rare. In these three lectures, given as the 2017 Hamlyn Lecture series, Professor Andrew Burrows takes on the challenge of thinking seriously and at a practical level about statutes in English law. In his characteristically lively and punchy style, he examines three central aspects which he labels interpretation, interaction and improvement. So how are statutes interpreted? Is statutory interpretation best understood as seeking to effect the intention of Parliament or is that an unhelpful fiction? Can the common law be developed by analogy to statutes? Do the judges have too much power in developing the common law and in interpreting statutes? How can our statutes be improved? These and many other questions are explored and answered in this accessible and thought-provoking analysis.

UK, EU and Global Administrative Law
UK, EU and Global Administrative Law

Author: Paul Craig

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-10-26

Total Pages: 845

ISBN-13: 110712512X

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A detailed analysis of the foundations and challenges of UK, EU and global administrative law.

Judging Civil Justice
Judging Civil Justice

Author: Hazel G. Genn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0521118948

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A trenchant critique of developments in civil justice that questions modern orthodoxy and points to a downgrading of civil justice.

Can Human Rights Survive?
Can Human Rights Survive?

Author: Conor Gearty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-05-18

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 131645052X

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In this set of three essays, originally presented as the 2005 Hamlyn Lectures, Conor Gearty considers whether human rights can survive the challenges of the war on terror, the revival of political religion, and the steady erosion of the world's natural resources. He also looks deeper than this to consider the fundamental question: How can we tell what human rights are? In his first essay, Gearty asks how the idea of human rights needs to be made to work in our age of relativism, uncertainty and anxiety. In the second, he assesses how the idea of human rights has coped with its incorporation in legal form in the UK Human Rights Act, arguing that the record is much better and more democratic than many human rights enthusiasts allow. In his final essay, Gearty confronts the challenges that may destroy the language of human rights for the generations that follow us.

The Common Law Constitution
The Common Law Constitution

Author: John Laws

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-07-17

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1107077729

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"The law is not a science, for its purpose is not to find out natural facts. It is an art as architecture is an art: its function is practical, but it is enhanced by such qualities as elegance, economy and clarity. The law has two practical purposes: first, to require, forbid or penalise forms of conduct between citizen and citizen, and citizen and State; secondly, to provide formal rules for classes of human activity whose fulfilment would otherwise be confused, uncertain or ineffective. Laws in the former category include every provision for a remedy"--

Freedom Under the Law
Freedom Under the Law

Author: Alfred Thompson Denning Bar Denning

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-10

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781015072978

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