Ashes and Sparks: Essays On Law and Justice

by Stephen Sedley

• ISBN13: 9780521170901
• ISBN10: 0521170907
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

As a practising barrister, the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley wrote widely on legal and non-legal matters, and continued to do so after becoming a judge in 1992. This anthology contains classic articles, previously unpublished essays and lecture transcripts. To each, he has added reflections on what has transpired since or an explanation of the British legal and political context that originally prompted it. Covering the history, engineering and architecture of the justice system, their common theme relates to the author's experiences as a barrister and judge, most notably in relation to the constitutional changes which have emerged in the last twenty years in the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xix
History	p. 1
Victors' justice	p. 3
Above it all	p. 17
Reading their rights	p. 29
From victim to suspect	p. 42
Farewell sovereignty	p. 49
No law at all	p. 56
The sound of silence	p. 64
The spark in the ashes	p. 88
Wringing out the fault	p. 101
Everything and nothing	p. 122
Skulls and crossbones	p. 131
Law	p. 139
Justice miscarried	p. 141
Breaking the law	p. 147
Declining the brief	p. 153
Big lawyers and little lawyers	p. 161
Parliament, government, courts	p. 170
Judges in lodgings	p. 18
Mice peeping out of oakum	p. 187
Justice in Chile	p. 192
Never do anything for the first time	p. 200
Rarely pure and never simple	p. 213
Law and plumbing	p. 225
The Laws of Documents	p. 228
Justice	p. 231
The right to know	p. 233
The moral economy of judicial review	p. 246
Policy and law	p. 255
Responsibility and the law	p. 263
The Crown in its own courts	p. 269
Human rights - who needs them?	p. 285
Fundamental values - but which?	p. 295
Overcoming pragmatism	p. 302
Sex, libels and video-surveillance	p. 311
This beats me	p. 325
Public inquiries: a cure or a disease?	p. 335
Human rights: a twenty-first century agenda	p. 348
Are human rights universal, and does it matter?	p. 365
Bringing rights home: time to start a family?	p. 377
The four wise monkeys visit the marketplace of ideas	p. 391
Index	p. 407
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