Ashes and Sparks: Essays on Law and Justice

by Sedley, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781107000957
• ISBN10: 1107000955
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-28
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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 This anthology contains classic articles, previously unpublished essays and lecture transcripts.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

History

Victors' justice

Above it all

Reading their rights

From victim to suspect

Farewell sovereignty

No law at all

The sound of silence

The spark in the ashes

Wringing out the fault

Everything and nothing

Skulls and crossbones

Judgery

Justice miscarried

The Guildford Four

Declining the brief

Big lawyers and little lawyers

Parliament, government, courts

Judges in lodgings

Mice peeping out of oakum

Justice in Chile

Never do anything for the first time

Rarely pure and never simple

Law and plumbing

The laws of documents

Justice

The right to know

The moral economy of judicial review

Policy and law

Responsibility and the law

The Crown in its own courts

Human rights - who needs them?

Fundamental values - but which?

Overcoming pragmatism

Sex, libels and video-surveillance

This beats me

Public inquiries: a cure or a disease?

Human rights: a 21st century agenda

Are human rights universal, and does it matter?

Bringing rights home: time to start a family?

The three wise monkeys visit the marketplace of ideas

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