Failing Justice

Author : Craig Alan Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786421978

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In the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice Charles Evans Whittaker (1957-1962) merited several distinctions. He was the only Missourian and the first native Kansan appointed to the Court. He was one of only two justices to have served at both the federal district and appeals court levels before ascending to the Supreme Court. And Court historians have routinely rated him a failure as a justice. This book is a reconsideration of Justice Whittaker, with the twin goals of giving him his due and correcting past misrepresentations of the man and his career. Based on primary sources and information from the Whittaker family, it demonstrates that Whittaker's life record is definitely not one of inadequacy or failure, but rather one of illness and difficulty overcome with great determination. Nine appendices document all aspects of Whittaker's career. Copious notes, a selected bibliography, and two indexes complete a work that challenges the historical assessment of this public servant from Missouri.

Author : Craig Alan Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786484300

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Failing Justice by Craig Alan Smith Pdf

In the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice Charles Evans Whittaker (1957–1962) merited several distinctions. He was the only Missourian and the first native Kansan appointed to the Court. He was one of only two justices to have served at both the federal district and appeals court levels before ascending to the Supreme Court. And Court historians have routinely rated him a failure as a justice. This book is a reconsideration of Justice Whittaker, with the twin goals of giving him his due and correcting past misrepresentations of the man and his career. Based on primary sources and information from the Whittaker family, it demonstrates that Whittaker’s life record is definitely not one of inadequacy or failure, but rather one of illness and difficulty overcome with great determination. Nine appendices document all aspects of Whittaker’s career. Copious notes, a selected bibliography, and two indexes complete a work that challenges the historical assessment of this public servant from Missouri.

Author : S. Ronald Ellis
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774824774

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Unjust by Design by S. Ronald Ellis Pdf

Unjust by Design describes a system in need of major restructuring. Written by a respected critic, it presents a modern theory of administrative justice fit for that purpose. It also provides detailed blueprints for the changes the author believes would be necessary if justice were to in fact assume its proper role in Canada’s administrative justice system.

Author : Helena Kennedy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473552548

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Eve Was Shamed by Helena Kennedy Pdf

What comes after #MeToo? One of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights answers with this urgent, authoritative and deeply shocking look at British justice In Eve Was Shamed Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discriminated against throughout the legal system, from the High Court (where only 21% of judges are women) to female prisons (where 84% of inmates are held for non-violent offences despite the refrain that prison should only be used for violent or serious crime). In between are the so-called ‘lifestyle’ choices of the Rotherham girls; the failings of the current rules on excluding victims’ sexual history from rape trials; battered wives being asked why they don’t ‘just leave’ their partners; the way statistics hide the double discrimination experienced by BAME and disabled women; the failure to prosecute cases of female genital mutilation... the list goes on. The law holds up a mirror to society and it is failing women. The #MeToo campaign has been in part a reaction to those failures. So what comes next? How do we codify what we've learned? In this richly detailed and shocking book, one of our most eminent human rights thinkers and practitioners shows with force and fury that change for women must start at the heart of what makes society just.

Author : Yin, Elijah Tukwariba,Kofie, Nelson F.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781799878995

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Advancing Civil Justice Reform and Conflict Resolution in Africa and Asia: Comparative Analyses and Case Studies by Yin, Elijah Tukwariba,Kofie, Nelson F. Pdf

The civil justice system is characterized by a distinct dispute resolution and law enforcement functions, although these functions are not always explicit and their relationship can be vague. People normally turn to this legal system to address an “unjust" situation they encounter. This makes civil justice both socially and economically important, as it may be driven by efficiency or access to justice concerns. The literature suggests that law reform has an uninspiring record in this field. This is because it has, largely, not been considered with a detailed, empirically informed evaluation of proposed solutions. This legal system is complex, and research in this field is correspondingly challenging, interesting, and important. Advancing Civil Justice Reform and Conflict Resolution in Africa and Asia: Comparative Analyses and Case Studies provides significant empirical research findings as well as theoretical reviews and frameworks on a wide array of issues within civil justice and the legal system. This includes topic areas such as access to justice and legal representation, the challenges to developing civil justice, courts and procedures, and civil justice reform. This book is valuable for lawyers, human rights lawyers, court officials, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, consultants, professionals, academicians, students, and researchers working in the field of law, socio-legal studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, social work, social policy, economics, and criminal justice, along with anyone seeking updated information on the current reforms and challenges within the civil justice and legal systems.

Author : Robins, Jon,Newman, Daniel
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781529213157

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Justice in a Time of Austerity by Robins, Jon,Newman, Daniel Pdf

How are poverty and social inequality entrenched through a failing justice system? In this important book, Jon Robins and Daniel Newman examine how the lives of people already struggling with problems with their welfare benefits, jobs, housing and immigration are made much harder by cuts to legal aid and the failings of our creaking justice system. Over the course of 12 months, interviews were carried out on the ground in a range of settings with people as they were caught up in the justice system, in a range of settings such as foodbanks in a church hall in a wealthy part of London; a community centre in a former mining town; a homeless shelter for rough sleepers in Birmingham; and a destitution service for asylum seekers in a city on the South coast, as well as in courts and advice agencies up and down the country. The authors argue that a failure to access justice all too often represents a catastrophic step in the life of the person concerned and their family. This powerful, yet moving, account humanises the hostile political debates that surround legal aid and reveals what access to justice really means in Austerity Britain.

Author : Helena Kennedy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473572195

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Misjustice by Helena Kennedy Pdf

Two women a week are killed by a spouse or partner. Every seven minutes a woman is raped. Now is the time for change. ‘Fascinating and chilling’ Caroline Criado Perez, bestselling author of Invisible Women Helena Kennedy, one of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights, examines the pressing new evidence that women are being discriminated against when it comes to the law. From the shocking lack of female judges to the scandal of female prisons and the double discrimination experienced by BAME women, Kennedy shows with force and fury that change for women must start at the heart of what makes society just. ‘An unflinching look at women in the justice system... an important book because it challenges acquiescence to everyday sexism and inspires change’ The Times

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Association Pravnik Sarajevo
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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International Journal of Rule of Law, Transitional Justice And Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bruce Granville Miller
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803282753

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The Problem of Justice by Bruce Granville Miller Pdf

For the indigenous peoples of North America, the history of colonialism has often meant a distortion of history, even, in some cases, a loss or distorted sense of their own native practices of justice. How contemporary native communities have dealt quite differently with this dilemma is the subject of The Problem of Justice, a richly textured ethnographic study of indigenous peoples struggling to reestablish control over justice in the face of conflicting external and internal pressures. The peoples discussed in this book are the Coast Salish communities along the northwest coast of North America: the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe in Washington State, the St¢:lo Nation in British Columbia, and the South Island Tribal Council on Vancouver Island. Here we see how, despite their common heritage and close ties, each of these communities has taken a different direction in understanding and establishing a system of tribal justice. Describing the results?from the steadily expanding independence and jurisdiction of the Upper Skagit Court to the collapse of the South Island Justice Project?Bruce G. Miller advances an ethnographically informed, comparative, historically based understanding of aboriginal justice and the particular dilemmas tribal leaders and community members face. His work makes a persuasive case for an indigenous sovereignty associated with tribally controlled justice programs that recognize diversity and at the same time allow for internal dissent.

Author : United States. Department of Justice. Antitrust Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : PURD:32754078039843

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U.S. Department of Justice Merger Guidelines by United States. Department of Justice. Antitrust Division Pdf

Author : James F. Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416578895

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FDR and Chief Justice Hughes by James F. Simon Pdf

By the author of acclaimed books on the bitter clashes between Jefferson and Chief Justice Marshall on the shaping of the nation’s constitutional future, and between Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney over slavery, secession, and the presidential war powers. Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes's fight over the New Deal was the most critical struggle between an American president and a chief justice in the twentieth century. The confrontation threatened the New Deal in the middle of the nation’s worst depression. The activist president bombarded the Democratic Congress with a fusillade of legislative remedies that shut down insolvent banks, regulated stocks, imposed industrial codes, rationed agricultural production, and employed a quarter million young men in the Civilian Conservation Corps. But the legislation faced constitutional challenges by a conservative bloc on the Court determined to undercut the president. Chief Justice Hughes often joined the Court’s conservatives to strike down major New Deal legislation. Frustrated, FDR proposed a Court-packing plan. His true purpose was to undermine the ability of the life-tenured Justices to thwart his popular mandate. Hughes proved more than a match for Roosevelt in the ensuing battle. In grudging admiration for Hughes, FDR said that the Chief Justice was the best politician in the country. Despite the defeat of his plan, Roosevelt never lost his confidence and, like Hughes, never ceded leadership. He outmaneuvered isolationist senators, many of whom had opposed his Court-packing plan, to expedite aid to Great Britain as the Allies hovered on the brink of defeat. He then led his country through World War II.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210014066011

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Treatment of Juveniles in the Criminal Justice System by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice Pdf

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Author : Marvin Zalman,Julia Carrano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135077440

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Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform by Marvin Zalman,Julia Carrano Pdf

Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform is an important addition to the literature and teaching on innocence reform. This book delves into wrongful convictions studies but expands upon them by offering potential reforms that would alleviate the problem of wrongful convictions in the criminal justice system. Written to be accessible to students, Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform is a main text for wrongful convictions courses or a secondary text for more general courses in criminal justice, political science, and law school innocence clinics.

Author : Neil Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350313491

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Social Problems and Social Justice by Neil Thompson Pdf

Modern society is beset by a vast range of problems – such as poverty, homelessness and terrorism – that cause immense suffering for a significant number of people. These social problems both reflect and contribute to wider inequalities; consequently, in order to develop a true understanding of them, we must consider the social injustices with which they are inextricably linked. In this ground-breaking text, Neil Thompson turns his attention to the range of complex issues relating to social problems and social justice, and the relationship between them. With the help of engaging features that have become synonymous with his books, Thompson provides a clear exploration of some key social problems currently challenging us, analysis of the connection between social problems and social justice, and a review of how social policy initiatives to tackle these issues have fared to date. Innovative and absorbing, Social Problems and Social Justice is essential reading for students and practitioners across a wide range of social science disciplines and the social professions.

Author : Kate Fitz-Gibbon,Asher Flynn
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781443846318

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A Second Chance for Justice by Kate Fitz-Gibbon,Asher Flynn Pdf

Tina Thomas would have been turning 35 on the day that her husband of less than two weeks stood trial for her murder in the Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, US. Eight years and almost four months had passed since Tina died on her honeymoon, while scuba diving near the SS Yongala wreck on the Great Barrier Reef in Northern Queensland, Australia. During this period, there had been extensive police investigations conducted by local, state and federal agencies in Queensland and...