Legal systems: courts and procedures

Saul, Follesdal and Ulfstein examine in detail the interplay between national parliaments and the international human rights judiciary.

The first in-depth study to integrate the study of legal language with analysis of multimodal communication.

Images of Justice resonates with voices of the North and comes alive through interviews with many of those involved in the cases - defendants, judges, and prosecutors.

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Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Evidence Law is all about, Beginning Evidence is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.

Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory.

This Element shows the judicial treatment of presidential directives and the legal bases and principles employed in federal court decisions.

This comprehensive volume explores the impact of emerging technologies designed to fight crime and terrorism.

John J.

In Christopher Moore’s lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canada’s most influential courts from its origins as a branch of the lieutenant governor’s executive council to the post-Charter years of cutting-edge jurisprudence and national influence.

Juries have been at the center of some of the most emotionally charged moments of political life.

This book explores the way domestic courts contribute to the maintenance of theinternational of law by providing judicial control over the exercises of public powers that may conflict with international law.

Evidence in International Investment Arbitration is a guide for practitioners representing a party in investment arbitration disputes, whilst also offering academics a perspective on the practical elements affecting the treatment of evidence in the area.

A successor to the popular The Psychiatrist in Court: A Survival Guide, The Mental Health Professional in Court has expanded the scope of the earlier book to include other professionals in the field.

En la presente obra se hace un esbozo sobre la teoría del dominio del hecho, desde la doctrina clásica hasta las modernas tendencias sobre esta teoría.

Worker Injury Third Party Cases: Recognizing and Proving Liability is a practical resource that helps lawyers and others identify viable third party theories of liability in worker injury cases.

This new edition of Taylor on Appeals provides a detailed examination of the law and practice relating to criminal appeals.

Key Facts is the essential revision series for anyone studying law, including LLB, ILEX and post-graduate conversion courses.

When Don Reid published Eyewitness in 1973, the chronicle of his conversion from a supporter of the death penalty to an ardent opponent, the book was an immediate sensation.

As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns.

Reveals how Supreme Court justices'' personalities, particularly conscientiousness, influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution.

Presente trabajo reflexiona sobre tres temas: SISTEMA DE SANA CRITICA RACIONAL, DEBIDO PROCESO Y SEGURIDAD JURIDICA.

Expert evidence frequently wins or loses cases.

Why do people represent themselves?

Through different legal and criminological angles and perspectives, this book addresses the controversial question of whether prisoners should have the right to vote, as well as the optimal modalities for such a vote.

What is the epistemological value of testimony?

This multidisciplinary volume investigates the challenge of attaining legitimacy by international criminal courts and tribunals.

Innovations in Evidence and Proof brings together fifteen leading scholars and experienced law teachers based in Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the USA and England and Wales to explore and debate the latest developments in Evidence and Proof scholarship.

Servants of the Law examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S.

Australian Uniform Evidence Law offers an introduction to the law of evidence and its operation across Uniform Evidence Act jurisdictions.

2009 saw the centenary of the Society of Legal Scholars and the transition from the House of Lords to the new Supreme Court.

The use of third-party funding in the UK has been increasing and has moved into the mainstream as a funding option for clients involved in litigation, particularly following on from the positive endorsement of litigation funding by Lord Justice Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs where he said: 'I remain of the view that, in principle, third-party funding is beneficial and should be supported.

In Supreme Bias, Christina L.

Baker argues that coordinate interpretation - a model which requires both elected and appointed officials to interpret the Charter - allows for the creation of a more robust democracy, alleviating some of the tension between constitutionalism and democracy while limiting judicial activism.

The idea that wealthy people use their money to influence things, including politics, law, and media will surprise very few people.

As the nation turned its back on Reconstruction, the Supreme Court in turn narrowed Thirteenth-, Fourteenth-, and Fifteenth-Amendment protections of former slaves, thus straying from the understanding of the amendments' framers.

This book assesses data protection rules that are applicable to the processing of personal data in a law enforcement context.

If a defendant is on trial for a crime such as burglary, to what extent should the fact that he has a previous conviction for burglary feature in his trial?

Winner of the Saltire Society First Book Award 2016An Economist Book of the Year 2016A Spectator Book of the Year 2016In 2011, Isabel Buchanan, a twenty-three-year-old Scottish lawyer, moved to Pakistan to work in a new legal chambers in Lahore.

Explores Mill''s influence on our constitutional rights tradition including the right to privacy, free speech and how we understand liberty.

The use of third-party funding in the UK has been increasing and has moved into the mainstream as a funding option for clients involved in litigation, particularly following on from the positive endorsement of litigation funding by Lord Justice Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs where he said: 'I remain of the view that, in principle, third-party funding is beneficial and should be supported.

The politics of division and distraction, conservatives claims of liberalisms dangers, the wisdom of amoral foreign policy, a partisan challenge to a Supreme Court justice, and threats to the constitutionally mandated balance between the three branches of government: however of the moment these matters might seem, they are clearly presaged in events chronicled by Joshua E.

Today 700 million Chinese citizens -- more than fifty-four percent of the population -- live in cities.

Nasty, below-the-belt campaigns, mudslinging, and character attacks.

Can we rely solely on statistics when we judge what is true and just?

An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City's dramatically expanded policing of low-level offensesFelony conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common outcome is not prison.

This book informs the debates about judicial activism with concrete empirical analyses of what judges actually do.