Judicial Activism in UK Law
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The Constitutional Limits of Judicial Activism: Judicial Conduct of International Relations and Child Abduction
Judges are increasingly visible in their participation in activities off the bench. This may create difficulties in drawing the line between their duties in court and their other activities. Howeve...
- Privacy, Confidence and Press Freedom: A Study in Judicial Activism
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Judicial Activism in the Name of the Nation: Reneging on the Integration of Immigrants in Greece
Why do courts sometimes decide to liberalize migrants’ rights, while at others restricting such rights, even contrary to the policies of elected governments? This article addresses this question in...
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Book Reviews
Book reviwed in this articles: THE DARK SIDES OF VIRTUE: REASSESSING INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIANISM by DAVID KENNEDY JUDICIAL ACTIVISM: AUTHORITY, PRINCIPLE AND POLICY IN THE JUDICIAL METHOD by MI...... ... two main parts, first focusing on inter- national humanitarian activism and then on policy making. The introduction encourages us to move away ... ß Cardiff University Law School 2005 ... JUDICIAL ACTIVISM: AUTHORITY, PRINCIPLE AND POLICY IN THE JUDICIAL METHOD by ... ...
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Book Reviews
Books reviewed: Carlo Guarnieri and Patrizia Pederzoli, The Power of Judges S. P. Sathe, Judicial Activism in India – Transgressing Borders and Enforcing Rights... ... of Organization and Political Systems at the Centre for Judicial Studies within the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of ... referred are entitled respectively ‘Judges: Status, Career, and Activism’; ‘The Judicial System’; ‘The Political System’. The first of ... ...
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Judges and Their Work
The article discusses judicial activism in the light of research into the attitudes of English judges, and a comparator group of US judges, towards judicial selection, judicial training and sentenc...... ... Abstract The article discusses judicial activism in the light of research into the attitudes of English ... ...
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Role of government’s legal adviser in curbing corruption in Israel
Purpose: The status of government’s legal adviser in Israel is complicated and controversial. This status deeply impacts discretion and independence, especially in the role of combating corruption....... ... of the 1980s, in Israel, wascharacterized by prosecution’s activism because of the dramatically increasednumber of ... court, they successfully transited theirprosecutionmindset to judicial activism (and notonly for corruption-related cases).Originality/value ... ...
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Configuring criminal proceeds in money laundering cases in the UK
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to examine the way in which the courts in the UK have interpreted the meaning of criminal property in the principal money laundering offenses under the Proce...... ... of money laundering offenses in POCA and that despite such judicial activism in the constructionof criminal property, it has provided a much ... ...
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The 1993 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa - The Constitutional Court
The South African interim constitution (Act 200 of 1993) provides inter alia for a supposedly independent Constitutional Court which is mandated to act as the guardian of the post-apartheid constit...
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Public Interest Environmental Litigation in Ethiopia: Factors for its Dormant and Stunted Features
Public interest environmental litigation (PIEL) has been introduced into the Ethiopian legal system since 2002 with the prime purpose of facilitating and complementing the environmental protection ...... ... for PIEL, with all its limitations, is in place, gaps in judicial activism, legal culture, political will, public perception towards law, ... ...
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