296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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The end of the last century witnessed two major events in the field of civil justice: the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) came into force and the Human Rights Act (HRA) gave effect to the European Convention on Human Rights. This volume assesses the effect of the Act and attempts to reconcile the expediency and efficiency essential to modern civil justice with the need for recognition of human dignity... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Open Justice; Chapter 3 Equality of Arms and Related Doctrines; Chapter 4 Disclosure and Restrictions on Evidence; Chapter 5 Impartial and Independent Judges; Chapter 6 And So?;
Biography
Joe Jacob is Reader in Civil Justice at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He has written widely on public law and civil procedure.
'This book addresses an important and often ignored subject - the relationship between civil procedure and access to justice in our courts and the impact of human rights requirements on procedure brought about by decisions at Strasbourg under the European Convention on Human Rights and in domestic courts under the Human Rights Act. The work is a fascinating, detailed and timely account of that relationship and interreaction.' Patrick Birkinshaw, University of Hull, UK
