Just Law - Hardcover

Kennedy, Helena

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ISBN 10: 0701175060 ISBN 13: 9780701175061

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2004

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Acute, questioning, humane, passionately concerned for justice - Baroness Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain today. Here she roundly challenges the record of modern governments with regard to fundamental democratic rights, and insists that we return to the fundamental values of Equality, Fairness and respect for human dignity. She argues that in the last twenty years we have seen a steady erosion of civil liberties, culminating today in extraordinary legislation which wholly undermines long established freedoms. Are these moves a crude political response to demands for law and order? Or is the relationship between citizens and the state being reframed and redefined? This dazzling, thought-provoking study covers issues such as the right to privacy and the increase in electronic surveillance; the questions raised by advances in genetics; the procedural issues of 'double jeopardy' and the proposed reduction of trial by jury. Kennedy examines the huge increase in the number of women in prison, the inequities of the welfare system, but she also probes into issues that involve our relationship with other states: asylum, immigrations and terrorism, daring to ask - is the climate of fear being deliberately used by the government to roll back our liberties?

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Review:

"Remarkable - a passionate, cogent and eloquent defence of the idea of law as the framework for a just society... Vitally important" (Financial Times)

"Highly readable... Startlingly topical" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Powerful and prescient" (Daily Telegraph)

"This is a good book, well-written, pacey and to the point" (Sunday Times)

"Admirable... Without Helena Kennedy's passionate defence of the rule of law we might be completely in the hands of an uncaring government" (Daily Mail)

From the Publisher:

A leading left-wing establishment figure confronts the government head-on. A stunning, closely argued challenge to the track record of undermining civil liberties, and a vivid, provocative survey of the state of law and justice today.

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