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Author: Anthony LesterCondition: NewFormat: HardbackPages: 304Publisher: Biteback PublishingYear: 2022ISBN: 9781785904509
'I have been a campaigner in many human rights causes, some successful, some less so, some failed. My mother once said, 'Anthony, we had such a fine system until you ruined it!' I hope she was wrong.'
Over the course of his illustrious, pioneering and sometimes controversial career, Anthony Lester transformed Britain's approach to human rights. As a brave and creative lawyer, and as a peer in the House of Lords, he worked tirelessly to combat abuses of public power and to introduce new legal frameworks for human rights, equality and free speech.
In these honest and remarkable personal memoirs, which map the history of human rights in this country over the past half-century, Anthony Lester explores the social conditions and interior circumstances that shaped his life as a relentless and passionate campaigner for equality and justice.
This book by a team of academics, judges and distinguished practitioners discusses the implications of the incorporation of the ECHR into Scots law.
A study of human rights in an international context. The book focuses especially on the interaction between human rights as a value and norm in international relations, and Islam as a constituent of political culture in particular societies.