Power of persuasion
Subtitle: essays by a very public lawyer
By: Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781849468169
Subjects: Law; Constitutional law; Criminal law
Work titles: Essays
Description: "Over the years of the developing judicial review of ministerial and governmental decisions, Louis Blom-Cooper was a leading advocate who grew up with the advent of a distinctive brand of public law. His range of public activities, both inside and out of the courtroom, saw him dubbed by his colleagues as a polymath practitioner. They included chairmanship of plural public inquiries in child abuse and mental health, media contributions and innovation in penal reform. This book is a collection of his essays, prefaced by a self-examination of his unorthodox philosophy towards the law in action. It covers a variety of socio-legal topics that express his ambition to inform the public on the workings of the legal system. This involves a discussion of the history of Britain's unwritten and, in the author's view, insufficiently interpreted constitution. It reflects a commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights and portrays its international origins. It also opines on crime and punishment in the functioning of the courts and elsewhere, and the political shift from the penal optimism of the 1970s to the reactionary punitiveness of the post-1990s. The essays conclude with a miscellany of affairs, reflecting on professional practices and the author's judicial heroes Lord Reid and Lord Bingham."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The  scope of Judicial  review and the  rule of Law : Between Judicial  restraint and Judicial Creativity; title: Judicial  review : its Genesis and Growth Post-1977; title: Judges in Public  inquiries,  redivivus; title: The  road to  Rome and  Strasbourg via  San  Francisco :  the Genesis of Human  Rights; title: Towards a Legal  Forum of the  Isles; title: A Calendar of Murder : the Causes of  unjustifiable  Homicide; title: Towards a  new Homicide  Act; title: The Penalty for Murder : Life after Death; title: The  apotheosis of  a  mateurism; title: English Juries on Trial; title: The Ambit of Innocence; title: 'Consuming Your Own Smoke'; title: Crime and Justice : a Shift in Perspective; title: The Magistracy : a Professional Court?; title: Serious Fraud Offences : Whither Their Trial?; title: James Hanratty : a Vindicatory View; title: An Advocate's Tale; title: Criminal Justice on Trial; title: Victims Adrift; title: The Whys and Wherefores of Penal Policy; title: Community Service : Penological Progress; title: Prisoners' Right to Vote; title: Dangerousness; title: Press (Media) Freedom : Constitutional Right or Cultural Assumption?; title: The Jurisprudence of Privacy; title: Media Freedom : a New Concept in Free Speech; title: Censors in the Courtroom; title: The Historical Background to Self-Regulation of the Press; title: Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) : Middle Templar Extraordinary; title: Intervention and Amicus Curiae; title: Bench and Bar; title: Judicial Heroes; title: Lord Denning's Legacy : a Judicial Misfit?; title: Pilgrims' Progress : Academics and Practitioners.