Lord Kilmuir
Lord Kilmuir

Author: Neil Duxbury

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-05-28

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1782256245

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This short book examines the career and achievements of Lord Kilmuir (David Maxwell Fyfe), a British politician and former Lord Chancellor who is mainly remembered for some poor and unpopular decisions but who nevertheless made a considerable mark on twentieth-century legal development. After the Second World War, Kilmuir not only excelled as a fellow prosecutor with Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg but also played a significant role in the effort to restore European unity, particularly through his involvement in the drafting of the European Convention on Human Rights. Drawing on archival and other primary sources, this book considers Kilmuir's initiatives both at home and in Europe, and concludes by marking out his achievements as a pro-European Conservative who not only favoured the right of individual petition to a supranational, Convention-enforcing court but who also favoured Parliament legislating to replicate Convention norms in domestic law.

Lord Kilmuir
Lord Kilmuir

Author: Neil Duxbury

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-05-28

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1782256253

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This short book examines the career and achievements of Lord Kilmuir (David Maxwell Fyfe), a British politician and former Lord Chancellor who is mainly remembered for some poor and unpopular decisions but who nevertheless made a considerable mark on twentieth-century legal development. After the Second World War, Kilmuir not only excelled as a fellow prosecutor with Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg but also played a significant role in the effort to restore European unity, particularly through his involvement in the drafting of the European Convention on Human Rights. Drawing on archival and other primary sources, this book considers Kilmuir's initiatives both at home and in Europe, and concludes by marking out his achievements as a pro-European Conservative who not only favoured the right of individual petition to a supranational, Convention-enforcing court but who also favoured Parliament legislating to replicate Convention norms in domestic law.

The Office of Lord Chancellor
The Office of Lord Chancellor

Author: Diana Woodhouse

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2001-04-30

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1847313000

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The office of Lord Chancellor is one that has frequently been questioned. However,the extent and diversity of the questioning seldom attained the proportions reached in the final years of the twentieth century, when they drew attention to the deficiencies of the position of Lord Chancellor, the inherent tensions within that position and the incongruity of such a role in a modern democracy. This book examines these questions. It analyses the development and current position of the Lord Chancellor as head of the judiciary, member of the Cabinet, judge and Speaker in the House of Lords and considers his role in relation to judicial appointments. It also looks at the LCD, the development of which acts as an indicator of the changes in the office of Lord Chancellor. It concludes by making proposals for reform, the most far-reaching of which is the abolition of the office.

Adventures in Criminology
Adventures in Criminology

Author: Sir Leon Radzinowicz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-03-11

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 1134639341

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Sir Leon Radzinowicz is one of the key figures in the development of criminology in the twentieth century. This account of the development of criminology intertwines his personal narrative as a criminologist with the progression of criminology itself. His experience gained from a career which has spanned 70 years since the 1920s, offers a profound overview of how the understanding of crime and criminals, of criminal justice systems and penology has changed, and of the tensions and dilemmas these pose for democratic societies.

The Australian Judiciary
The Australian Judiciary

Author: Enid Campbell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0521769167

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This definitive survey of the Australian judiciary describes and evaluates the work, techniques, problems and future of courts and judges.

Constitutional Practice
Constitutional Practice

Author: Rodney Brazier

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780198298113

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This book is intended for students of constitutional law and British politics and government, lawyers, politicians and government officials.

Whitehall and the Suez Crisis
Whitehall and the Suez Crisis

Author: Anthony Gorst

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1136329447

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This review of the Suez Crisis gives a chapter each to such key players as the Chief of the Imperial General Staff and the Secretary to the Cabinet. It incorporates 1956 releases from the Public Record Office to reassess the role of officials and the process of policymaking.

Fine Lines and Distinctions
Fine Lines and Distinctions

Author: Terence Morris

Publisher: Waterside Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1904380662

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A most powerful commentary on the law of murder (and other unlawful killings), its history, modern-day development, wholesale deficiencies and unjust penal consequences.