Separation of Powers in the Contemporary Constitution - Judicial Competence and Independence in the United Kingdom

Informationen zum Autor Roger Masterman is Senior Lecturer in Law at Durham Law School, where his teaching and research interests lie in the area of constitutional law and reform. Klappentext An analysis of the dividing lines between judicial! executive and legislative power in the United Kingdom constitution. Zusammenfassung The Separation of Powers in the Contemporary Constitution examines the implications of two noted constitutional reforms: the Human Rights Act (1998) and the Constitutional Reform Act (2005). This 2010 book will appeal to lawyers and political scientists interested in the interplay between constitutional principle and legal doctrine in the contemporary constitution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. A doctrine of uncertain scope and application; 2. The Human Rights Act 1998 and the separation of powers; 3. The Strasbourg influence; 4. Justiciability; 5. Deference and proportionality; 6. Statutory interpretation and declarations of incompatibility; 7. Developing the common law and the meaning of 'the convention rights'; 8. The independence of the judiciary; 9. Towards constitutional separation.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Masterman, Roger (University of Durham) Masterman, Masterman Roger
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521493376
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49337-6
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Constitutional, Politics & government, Political science & theory, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general