Widening Horizons - The Influence of Comparative Law and International Law on Domestic Law

Informationen zum Autor Lord Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, has held the posts of Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord. He presided over key judgments, including the ruling in the Belmarsh case that it was unlawful, and a breach of human rights, to detain foreign terrorist suspects without charge, and the ruling that evidence against terror suspects obtained by torture was inadmissible. Klappentext A description of the recent growth of an internationalist outlook in British courts. Zusammenfassung British judges must now pay attention to foreign case law when deciding domestic cases! and are increasingly required to interpret and apply international law in domestic courts and administer an international code of human rights. Tom Bingham examines the consequences of this increasingly internationalist outlook of British courts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 'Foreign moods, fads or fashions'; 2. 'Wider still and wider'; 3. Nonsense on international stilts?.

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• Authors: Thomas H. Bingham, Tom Bingham, Bingham Thomas H.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.2010
• EAN: 9780521138024
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13802-4
• No. of pages: 102
• Series: The Hamlyn Lectures; Hamlyn Lectures (Paperback); The Hamlyn Lectures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Courts & procedure, Judicial powers, Constitutional & administrative law, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general