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Bonfire of the liberties : New Labour, human rights, and the rule of law / K.D. Ewing.

By:

Ewing, K. D. (Keith D.) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xxiii, 310 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

019958477X (hardback)
9780199584772 (hardback)
0199584788 (paperback)
9780199584789 (paperback)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

323.0941 22

LOC classification:

KD4080 .E949 2010

Contents:

Introduction -- The growth of police powers -- Surveillance and the right to privacy -- Freedom of assembly and the right of public protest -- Free speech and the national security state -- A permanent emergency and the eclipse of human rights law -- From detention-to control orders-to rendition -- Conclusion : power not rights.

Review: "This book confronts the corrosion of civil liberties under successive New Labour governments since 1997. It argues that the last decade has seen a wholesale failure of constitutional principle and exposed the futility of depending on legal rights to restrict the power of executive government. It considers the steps necessary to prevent the continued decline of political standards, arguing that only through rebalancing political power can civil liberties be adequately protected."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index.

"This book confronts the corrosion of civil liberties under successive New Labour governments since 1997. It argues that the last decade has seen a wholesale failure of constitutional principle and exposed the futility of depending on legal rights to restrict the power of executive government. It considers the steps necessary to prevent the continued decline of political standards, arguing that only through rebalancing political power can civil liberties be adequately protected."--BOOK JACKET.

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