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Description
This Anthology is a compendium of articles that have been published in various issues of Law and Justice. These articles have been selected for their thematic nature from a diversity of jurisdictions. The ultimate aim and aspiration in brining out this book is Justice – Political, Social and Economic. The underlying purpose is to emphasise that the Quest for Justice is the common endeavour of all judges and lawyers in every society based on the Rule of Law and which respects the human dignity of every person as a member of the human family.
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Contents
1. The Juristic Manifesto of the Human Person - Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer
2. The United Nations and Human Rights - Soli J. Sorabjee
3. The System for Protection of Human Rights under the European Convention
on Human Rights - Rolv Ryssdal
4. The Protection and Enforcement of Fundamental Human Rights: The
Zimbabwean Experience - Justice A.R. Gubbay
5. The Constitution as a Vehicle for The Protection of Human Rights:
The Namibian Experience - Vekui Rukoro
6. Human Rights, Custom and Tradition - Justice Enoch Dumbutshena
7. Arrest Without Warrant in A Dwelling House: The Law in Canada - Kathleen Keating
8. Human Rights in New Zealand - Collin Aikman
9. Individual Rights and Culture: An East Asian Perspective - Richard Cullen
10. Promoting Human Rights in the Global Market Place - Dr Kamal Hossain
11. Promoting and implementing the UN Declaration: A Minority Rights Group
Perspective - Alan Phillips
12. Protection of Women's Rights - Justice C.V, Wigneswaran
13. Protecting Refugees: A Challenge of International Law - Dennis Mcnamara
14. Constitutions are Shaped by History: An Account of the making of South Africa's
new Constitution Justice Arthur Chaskalson
15. Reflections on the Indian Constitution - Some Aspects - Justice S. Ranganathan
16. Basic Structure of the Constitution and Constitutional Principles - Dieter Conrad
17. The Relationship between Public and Private Law - The Rt. Hon'ble the Lord
Woolf of Barnes
18. Australian Experiments in Administrative Law - Cheryl Saunders
19. A Conservative approach to Public Interest Law - K.N. Choksy, P.C.
20. Law, Justice and Morality: Challenges and Reflections from The Life of
Advocate Bram Fischer - Justice Ismail Mahomed
21. U.N. Special Procedure on the Independence and Impartiality of the
Judiciary - Param Cumaraswamy
22. Judicial Independence - Lessons from India and Australian Developments -
The Hon'bte Justice Michael Kirby
23. Making the Angels Weep - Sir Robin Cooke
24. Judges and Judicial Accountability - Dato' Dr. Cyrus Das
25. Bill of Rights: Judicial Approach, Principles of Interpretation and Remedies -
The Indian Experience - Soli J. Sorabjee
26. Democracy and Free Speech - Anthony Lester
27. Freedom of Expression and the Constitution - Gilbert Marcus
28. Freedom of Expression in India - Soli J. Sorabjee
29. Interrelationship between Law, Media and the Judiciary - Justice A.M. Ahmadi
30. 50 Years of Freedom Under Rule of Law: Indian Experience - Justice J.S. Verma
31. Rule of Law v. Privileges of Parliament - Vinod A. Bobde
32. Criminal Liability for Environmental Offences in the United Kingdom -
The Right Hon'ble the Lord Hope of Craighead
33. Assessing Environmental Damage under Indian Law - Michael R. Anderson &
Anees Ahmed
34. Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods in the Federal Court System -
Judge Dorothy W. Nelson
35. Democratisation, Governance and Conditionalities - Yash Ghai
36. The Rise of Judicial Power - V.A. Bobde
37. Judicial Review - Judicial Activism - Need for Caution - Justice Dr A.S. Anand
38. Humpty-Dumpty and the Law - Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy
39. Conflict of Laws: Islamic Family Law in the English Courts - Ayesha Hasan
40. Governmental Stability in Unstable Politics - Rodney Brazier
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Author Details
Soli J. Sorabjee is Attorney General for India since April 1998, which constitutional office he also held in 1989-1990. He was the Solicitor General of India and Addl. Solicitor General of India in late seventies. He started legal practice in 1953 and was designated as Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India in 1971. Mr. Sorabjee mainly practices in the field of constitutional and administrative law. He is the President of the United Lawyers Association. He is the Vice-President of the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association. He is a member of the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities since 1998. He was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Commission as Special Rapporteur in October 1997 to report to the UN General Assembly on human rights situation in Nigeria. He was appointed in May 1999 as the Personal Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for Hast Timor. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. He was a Member of the National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution. He has appeared and argued several cases of constitutional importance in the High Courts and in the Supreme Court of India, particularly cases relating to the Freedom of Expression and Protection of Human Rights. He appeared and successfully argued in April 2000 for the Government of India in the International Court of Justice at The Hague in the Pakistan complaint regarding aerial incident. He was awarded in 1952 Kinloch Forbes Gold Medal in Roman Law and Jurisprudence. Padma Vibhushan was conferred on him in March 2002. He has written many articles and books, which include The Law of the Press Censorship in India; The Emergency, Censorship and the Press in. India; Monographs on Equality in the United States and India and Protection of Human Rights in Emergencies; Chapter on The Constitution and the Governor in "The Governor, Sage or Saboteur" [1985]. He has delivered several lectures on different aspects of constitutional and administrative law and in particular on press freedom, independence of the judiciary and human rights. His other interests are music, particularly jazz and literature, especially poetry.
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