International Women's Rights Cases The last two decades have seen major advances in the legal protection of the human rights of women around the world. A series of international and national court cases has developed an important body of jurisprudence that has been relied on by courts and advocates in many countries to support women's claims for equality and the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Growing out of a series of judicial colloquia organized by the Commonwealth Secretariat this compilation brings together a selection of over fifty significant cases from international and national courts. The cases are grouped by theme and presented in full text or edited format. Together they highlight the way in which courts have used international human rights norms and national constitutional standards to contribute to women's equality. A detailed introduction provides a summary of the significance of the cases and references further material available on women's human rights. Cases decided under United Nations human rights treaties the European and American Conventions on Human Rights and other international instruments as well as cases decided by national courts in Asia Africa Europe Australasia and North America are all included. The compilation will be of interest to all those with an interest in the advancement of the human rights of women especially equality advocates lawyers and judges scholars and students. | International Women's Rights Cases GBP 130.00 1
Criminal Justice Mental Health and the Politics of Risk Criminal Justice Mental Health and the Politics of Risk addresses the important issues which lie at the forefront of decision making and policy in criminal justice and health care. The book brings together several perpectives from a number of distinguished academic lawyers criminologists psychologists and psychiatrists. It is multi-disciplinary in its approach and is jointly edited by a lawyer a criminologist and a psychologist - all of whom have expertise and experience in this field. The book is written in the light of the current emphasis on risk assessment and management as well as the recent government proposals to reform mental health law and detain dangerous and severely personality disordered individuals. It provides a theoretical overview for academics and students in the fields of medical law mental health law criminal justice psychology sociology criminology and psychiatry. In addition the book's highly topical and pragmatic approach will appeal to numerous professionals and practitioners GBP 130.00 1
Interpretation of Contracts This book is a second edition of Interpretation of Contracts (2007). The original work examined various issues surrounding the question of how contracts should be interpreted by courts in particular focusing on the law of contract interpretation following Lord Hoffmann’s exposition of the principles of contextual interpretation in Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1998] 1 WLR 896. As with the original this new edition provides an overview of the subject concentrating on elements of controversy and disagreement rather than a detailed analysis of all the contract law rules and doctrines that might be regarded as interpretative in one sense or another. The book will be concerned with interpretation of contracts generally (following the rule that there are not different rules of interpretation for different kinds of contracts) but with reference to commercial contracts in particular since this is the area in which the contextual interpretative approach was developed and where it has most relevance. The overall aim of the second edition remains the same as the first – to produce an accessible and readable guide to contract interpretation for law students scholars and practitioners. GBP 38.99 1