Title: Judicial Activism in Common Law Supreme Courts
Abstract: This book examines the way in which judges in the top courts of nine different common law countries go about developing the law by devising new principles to allow themselves to be innovative and justice-oriented, and to ensure that human rights are universally protected. The book surveys the decisions of these top courts over the last generation to determine how 'judicially active' they have been. It seeks to compare and contrast the different experiences and to identify the principles in accordance with which the various courts have decided to develop the law. How do they interpret legislati ... More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-12-13
Language: en
Type: book
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