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Based on empirical research, this book shows how public interest litigation (PIL) grants the appellate courts enormous flexibility in procedure, allowing them to manoeuvre themselves into positions of overweening authority. While PIL cases are usually politically analysed solely in terms of their effects, whether beneficial or disastrous, this book locates the political challenges that PIL poses in its very process, arguing that its fundamentally protean nature stems from its mimicry of ideas of popular justice. It examines PIL as part of a larger trend towards legal informalism in post-Emergency India. Casting a critical eye over these institutional reforms that aimed to adapt the colonial legal inheritance to 'Indian realities', this book looks at the challenges posed by self-consciously culturalist juridical innovations like PIL to ideas of fairness in adjudication, as well as democratic politics.

Public interest law --- Law, Public interest --- Pro bono publico legal services --- Public interest --- Practice of law --- Cause lawyers --- Legal services --- Law and legislation --- India --- Politics and government

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For the 2010 Hamlyn Lectures, Alan Paterson explores different facets of three key institutions in a democracy: lawyers, access to justice and the judiciary. In the case of lawyers he asks whether professionalism is now in terminal decline. To examine access to justice, he discusses past and present crises in legal aid and potential endgames and in relation to judges he examines possible mechanisms for enhancing judicial accountability. In demonstrating that the benign paternalism of lawyers in determining the public good with respect to such issues is no longer unchallenged, he argues that the future roles of lawyers, access to justice and the judiciary will only emerge from dialogues with other stakeholders claiming to speak for the public interest.

Practice of law. --- Legal ethics. --- Ethics, Legal --- Lawyers --- Professional ethics --- Prosecutorial misconduct --- Law --- Law practice --- Practice --- Public interest law --- Judges --- Justice, Administration of --- Democracy --- Law, Public interest --- Pro bono publico legal services --- Public interest --- Practice of law --- Cause lawyers --- Legal services --- Law and legislation --- General and Others --- Sociology of law --- Law of civil procedure --- United Kingdom

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This is the first book covering those who abused and misused the legal system in medieval England and the initial attempts of the Anglo-American legal system to deal with these forms of legal corruption. Maintenance, in the sense of intermeddling in another person's litigation, was a source of repeated complaint in medieval England. This book reveals for the first time what actually transpired in the resultant litigation. Extensive study of the primary sources shows that the statutes prohibiting maintenance did not achieve their objectives because legal proceedings were rarely brought against those targeted by the statutes: the great and the powerful. Illegal maintenance was less extensive than frequently asserted because medieval judges recognized a number of valid justifications for intermeddling in litigation. Further, the book casts doubt on the effectiveness of the statutory regulation of livery. This is a treasure trove for legal historians, literature scholars, lawyers, and academic libraries.

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Government - General --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - General --- Public administration. --- Whistle blowing. --- Disclosure of information. --- Public interest law. --- Law, Public interest --- Pro bono publico legal services --- Public interest --- Information, Disclosure of --- Blowing the whistle --- Whistleblowing --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Law and legislation --- Practice of law --- Cause lawyers --- Legal services --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Leaks (Disclosure of information) --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- Whistle blowing --- Public interest law --- Employees. --- Management. --- Law and legislation.

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Legal mobilization is the process by which individuals invoke their legal rights and use litigation to defend or develop these rights against the government. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to this phenomenon as it occurs under authoritarian regimes. It is often suggested that, in such situations, legal mobilization is caused by the strategic interests of the ruling elites. Using the case study of post-colonial Hong Kong, where legal mobilization has by no means unfolded as political authorities would wish, Waikeung Tam casts doubt on this contention. To do so, he examines in depth why and how legal mobilization arises under authoritarianism. Tam analyses quantitative data of changes in the Hong Kong judiciary agendas over the last three decades and uses detailed interviews with activists, politicians, cause lawyers, judges and government officials to reveal the complex underlying socio-political forces at play.

Law reform --- Law --- Public interest law --- Political questions and judicial power --- Human rights --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Judicial activism --- Judicial power and political questions --- Act of state --- Administrative discretion --- Judicial review --- Jurisdiction --- Rule of law --- Separation of powers --- Law, Public interest --- Pro bono publico legal services --- Public interest --- Practice of law --- Cause lawyers --- Legal services --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Legal reform --- Political aspects --- Law and legislation --- Hong Kong (China) --- Politics and government --- General and Others