Justice, legality, and the rule of law
Subtitle: lessons from the Pitcairn prosecutions
By: edited by Dawn Oliver.
Contributors: Oliver, Dawn.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780199568666
Subjects: Law -- Pitcairn Island; Common law -- Reception -- Pitcairn Island; Law -- Colonies -- Great Britain; Trials (Rape) -- Pitcairn Island; Human rights -- Pitcairn Island; Criminal liability -- Pitcairn Island
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: Problems on Pitcairn / Dawn Oliver; title: The Pitcairn prosecutions, paper legal systems, and the rule of law / Dawn Oliver; title: Pitcairn's tortured past : a legal history / Andrew Lewis; title: Pitcairn Island law : a peculiar case of the diffusion of the common law / Gordon Woodman; title: The Pitcairn prosecutions : an assessment of their historical context by reference to the provisions of public international law / Dino Kritsiotis and A.W.B. Simpson; title: 'A million mutinies now' : why claims of cultural uniqueness cannot be used to justify violations of basic human rights / Colm O'Cinneide; title: Rights and duties on Pitcairn Island / George Letsas; title: Legality, reciprocity, and the criminal law on Pitcairn / Stephen Guest.