Remedies for Human Rights Violations - A Two-Track Approach to Supra-National and National Law

List of contents

1. The importance and complexity of remedies; 2. A two-track approach to individual and systemic remedies; 3. Interim remedies; 4. Remedies for laws that violate human rights; 5. Damages; 6. Remedies in the criminal process; 7. Declarations, injunctions and the declaration plus; 8. Remedies for social, economic and cultural rights; 9. Remedies for violations of indigenous rights; Conclusion.

About the author

Kent Roach holds the Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto in Canada He has written fifteen books including Constitutional Remedies in Canada (1994) and 2nd ed (2013) and The 9/11 Effect Comparative Counter-Terrorism (2011). His work on remedies has been widely cited by courts. Acting pro-bono he has been counsel in many of the Supreme Court of Canada's landmark decisions on remedies for rights violations.

Summary

There are many books about the promises made by human rights but few that deal with the remedies that are and should be available when rights are violated. This book examines remedies in international law but also the domestic law of the US, UK, South Africa, New Zealand and Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Kent Roach, Kent (University of Toronto) Roach, Roach Kent
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108417877
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41787-7
• No. of pages: 450
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general