Power of persuasion : essays by a very public lawyer / Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC.
2015
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Title
Power of persuasion : essays by a very public lawyer / Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC.
Uniform Title
Essays. Selections
Published
Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2015.
Call Number
KD358 .B58 2015
ISBN
9781849468169 (hbk.)
1849468168 (hbk.)
1849468168 (hbk.)
Description
viii, 365 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)902999367
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Lord Dyson
vii
Introduction
1
pt. I
Public Law: Judicial and Judicious Review
1.
The Scope of Judicial Review and the Rule of Law: Between Judicial Restraint and Judicial Creativity
9
2.
Judicial Review: its Genesis and Growth Post-1977
35
3.
Judges in Public Inquiries, Redivivus
38
4.
The Road to Rome and Strasbourg via San Francisco: the Genesis of Human Rights
49
5.
Towards a Legal Forum of the Isles
60
pt. II
Crime and Justice
6.
A Calendar of Murder: the Causes of Unjustifiable Homicide
70
7.
Towards a New Homicide Act
71
8.
The Penalty for Murder: Life after Death
92
9.
The Apotheosis of Amateurism
116
10.
English Juries on Trial
136
11.
The Ambit of Innocence
139
12.
'Consuming Your Own Smoke'
146
13.
Crime and Justice: a Shift in Perspective
150
14.
The Magistracy - a Professional Court?
169
15.
Serious Fraud Offences: Whither Their Trial?
175
16.
James Hanratty: a Vindicatory View
187
17.
An Advocate's Tale
194
18.
Criminal Justice on Trial
207
19.
Victims Adrift
213
pt. III
Penal Affairs
20.
The Whys and Wherefores of Penal Policy
221
21.
Community Service: Penological Progress
228
22.
Prisoners' Right to Vote
231
23.
Dangerousness
236
pt. IV
Media Law
24.
Press (Media) Freedom: Constitutional Right or Cultural Assumption?
247
25.
The Jurisprudence of Privacy
260
26.
Media Freedom: a New Concept in Free Speech
276
27.
Censors in the Courtroom
278
28.
The Historical Background to Self-Regulation of the Press
289
pt. V
Miscellany
29.
Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950): Middle Templar Extraordinary
299
30.
Intervention and Amicus Curiae
312
31.
Bench and Bar
320
32.
Judicial Heroes
330
33.
Lord Denning's Legacy: a Judicial Misfit?
334
34.
Pilgrims' Progress: Academics and Practitioners
347
Index
359