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Subject(s)

• Public interest law—Great Britain [Browse]
• Pressure groups—Great Britain [Browse]

Related name

• Rawlings, Richard [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-349) and index.

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Contents

• 'Black hole'
• Legal culture
• Vocabulary and classification
• prospectus
• 1. Philanthropy and Dissent
• Abolitionists in court
• Courts and political cases
• Parliament and courts
• Suffragists and courts
• Prosecution societies
• Moral crusaders
• Prosecution: 'public' or 'private' right?
• Maintenance and champerty: obsolete common law offences?
• Libertarian puritans
• Vice and vigilance
• 'A vision and its fulfilment'
• Protecting the helpless
• Open spaces and the countryside movement
• death of maintenance
• Win some, lose some
• modern environmental movement
• Civil liberties
• 2. Liberty Through Legality: The United States Experience
• common law heritage
• diversity of courts
• Slavery: from Somerset to Dred Scott
• Women as persons
• Josephine Goldmark and the 'Brandeis brief'
• 'Conservatives in court'
• 'watchdog of Negro liberties'
• ^ Civil liberties
• Third party intervention and ACLU
• American freedom in the post-war period
• Pressure and public interest
• Greening America
• half-empty cupboard: women in court again
• 'New Right'
• Pro-choice versus pro-life
• Cleaning up the criminal process
• Cruel and unusual? Death as the target
• victims' lobby
• 3. Group Action in the Civil Courts
• Costs and funding
• Disaster groups, disaster lawyers
• Western promise: The class action
• Poor relation: The representative action
• Muddling through? The lead action
• Representatives in conflict
• technical question?
• Collective injuries, collective remedies
• Housing cases and community lawyers
• Public and private law: access to court
• Standing to sue: planning cases
• Attorney-General and the public interest
• Against the unions: The Freedom Association
• Opening up standing
• ^ Towards representative proceedings? The CPAG
• 4. Courts, Campaigns and Lobbyists
• Separate identity
• Good fit: the ACA
• Radical challenge: professional restraint
• Political defences and the Peace Movement
• Defence campaigns and the 'BWNIC Case'
• Political theatre in Newbury
• Trespass as a campaign tool
• Objective: publicity
• Secrecy and discovery
• Professional foul?
• Blair Peach and racism
• In tandem? courts and Commons
• Afterword: campaigns against miscarriage of justice
• watershed: the Thalidomide affair
• Opren and after
• Lobbying the courts
• Gillick among the pressure groups
• 5. Strong Arm of the Law
• constitutional right? Philips and private prosecution
• private right to prosecute: apparent or real?
• Animal welfare and animal rights
• Objective and opportunity: an example from environmental crime
• Pressure for prosecution: The Blackburn cases
• 'Mightier than the sword'
• LIFE, abortion and the Crown Prosecution Service
• ^ Victims' rights and Victim Support
• victim as survivor: feminist challenge
• Pressure versus hate-crime
• Unheard: The Gay London Policing Group
• Criminalising disaster
• Campaign Against Drinking and Driving
• theatre of the absurd
• 6. Global Politics, Transnational Law
• 1. international scene
• Insider status at the UN
• UN enforcement procedures: a dead letter?
• Towards adjudication
• age of lawspeak?
• Campaigning against the death penalty
• National courts and international norms
• Pressure for peace
• 2. European Convention on Human Rights
• NCCL: a repeat player
• Procedural problems: standing, interventions and amicus briefs
• Stop the cane
• Family rights
• Snakes and ladders
• Networking and the ECHR
• 3. European Community
• Creating networks
• Standard setting: first steps
• Citizen enforcement
• Commission and citizen enforcement
• ^ Lobbying and the ECJ
• friend at court?
• Test cases for women
• Statutory pressure group?
• National courts and networks
• 7. Pressure Through Law
• alternative tradition
• Pluralism and changing context
• Predictors of success
• Group personality
• Good fit and respectability
• Externality
• 'Drainpipe' to 'freeway'
• Group action and legal process
• Striking back?
• future of pressure through law.

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ISBN

0415015499

LCCN

^^^93109451^

OCLC

27129206

RCP

H - S

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