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Book The Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession in English speaking Africa

Download or read book The Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession in English speaking Africa written by International Commission of Jurists (1952- ) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession in English speaking Africa

Download or read book The Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession in English speaking Africa written by International Commission of Jurists (1952- ) and published by Commission. This book was released on 1988 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: Lusaka seminar :

Book Independent Africa

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  • Author : Laurence Cecil Bartlett Gower
  • Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Independent Africa written by Laurence Cecil Bartlett Gower and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My intention [is] to provide a frank criticism of the British colonial legacies to countries which I have come to love and admire and a sincere unsycophantic tribute to those who are now struggling with the problems flowing from these legacies." In this book, an expanded version of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures he delivered at Harvard University in 1966, Mr. Gower first looks at some of the legacies of colonialism inherited by those nations of Tropical Africa which recently gained independence from Britain: Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. These various legacies include arbitrary national boundaries imposed long before independence; British-style education, government, civil service, military forces, and police; respect for the rule of law (and a residual contempt for it as a result of colonial associations); underdeveloped and unbalanced economies; hostility toward the West, including American "dollar-imperialism," and a hypersensitivity to criticism from that quarter. Mr. Gower continues with an assessment of what has happened to these legacies since independence and what seems likely to happen to them in the next few decades. His central concern is the challenge thus implied for the indigenous legal professions, but his study has far wider implications. In conclusion Mr. Gower describes how the legal professions were organized at the time of independence in the various countries and what progress has been made in producing the kinds of lawyers needed to solve the urgent problems these countries face. He suggests what the United States can and should-and occasionally what it should not-do to help.

Book Judicial Independence in Africa

Download or read book Judicial Independence in Africa written by Wahab O. Egbewole and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the theoretical level, most constitutions in Africa normally provide for the concept of separation of powers with each arm of government assigned defined roles and functions. At the operational level, the Judiciary is regarded as the junior partner with the 'restrictions' on funding in terms of spending as it is usually the prerogative of the Executive branch of government to allocate funds to the Judiciary. To what extent is the check and or control of funding affect the operations of the courts? Can in exercise of the doctrine of separation of powers be expanded with regards to the appointment, discipline and removal of judicial officers? What should be the relationship between the two other arms of government and the Judiciary with regards to control of cases to be determined by the courts. All these issues find a way of determining how effective the Judiciary can be in any governmental arrangement and structure. It is particularly challenging in Africa where democracy in practice is still at the embryonic stage especially with regards to the political office holders. The African Union has in place the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights with a provision for an African Commission to determine disputes. How effective is this Commission and how independent is it? This book, Judicial Independence in Africa set out to interrogate some of these issues and was put together by scholars of varied and diverse experience in and outside university environment tracing the evolution of the Judiciary as an arm of government, its relationship with other arms of government and the media, the operations of the institution in relation to issues of human rights, gender and juvenile justice.

Book Getting Africa Out of the Dungeon

Download or read book Getting Africa Out of the Dungeon written by Ateh-Afac Fossungu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using one of the continents supposed pathfinders, Cameroon as case-study, this book interrogates judiciary in Africa in three domains. First, as the third branch of government, second, as the acknowledged umpire of federalism, and, finally, as a means of reversing the institutionalization of in-human rights and injustice administration in Africa. While examining the roots and causes of the persisting human rights and justice administration problems in Cameroon particularly, and Africa in general, the book through the tumbu-tumbu Long-Distance Government Theory (LDGT), argues for a rethinking and freeing of strategies currently used from close to a century of colonial and neo-colonial bondage, under the confusing covers of independence and of advanced democracy. The book challenges Africa to consider a mentality change, for a real judiciary transformative change. The book will interest legal practitioners, social anthropologists, development studies and political science practitioners, among other such practitioners in the social sciences and humanities.

Book A Discourse on Just and Unjust Legal Institutions in African English speaking Countries

Download or read book A Discourse on Just and Unjust Legal Institutions in African English speaking Countries written by James S. E. Opolot and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work covers the historical as well as contemporary socio-political situations in which just and unjust legal situations, law-making bodies or parliaments, office of the ombudsman, faculties of law, police, courts, and penal systems are located. It provides a context for all relevant parties - citizen groups, professional associations, educators, law-makers, judges, police officials, and prison authorities.

Book Problems and Challenges for Lawyers in Africa

Download or read book Problems and Challenges for Lawyers in Africa written by Okechukwu Chinwuba Oko and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an illuminating perspective on how lawyers operate in a society anxious to embrace democracy in this era of hope and optimism, yet still crippled by past attitudes, weak and ineffectual institutions, corruption, and the recrudescence of primordial ethnic sentiments, using Nigeria as a case study. The book compares and contrasts the central issues faced by lawyers all over the African continent, since the social pathologies that disfigure Nigeria are prevalent in most African nations. Despite these problems, the democratic impulse remains strong in the continent of Africa. Nearly all African countries put their faith in constitutional democracy despite its debasement by the political elites; increasingly they depend on law to help promote social equilibrium and secure constitutional democracy.

Book The International Commission of Jurists

Download or read book The International Commission of Jurists written by Howard B. Tolley, Jr. and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding in 1952, the International Commission of Jurists has inspired the international human rights movement with persistent demands that governments obey the rule of law.

Book The Protection of Human Rights in African Criminal Proceedings

Download or read book The Protection of Human Rights in African Criminal Proceedings written by M. Cherif Bassiouni and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a collection of articles by authors from countries in Africa. The topics cover a wide range of issues in the administration of criminal justice and human rights. The different scholarly contributions facilitate a better understanding of certain aspects of the administration of criminal justice in the African sub-region and focus on specific human rights issues as they relate to international and African instruments on the protection of human rights.

Book The African Commission on Human and Peoples  Rights

Download or read book The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights written by Evelyn A. Ankumah and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Right to a Fair Trial under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Download or read book The Right to a Fair Trial under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights written by David Weissbrodt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights have established the right to a fair trial as an internationally recognized human rights norm. This volume examines the origins of the right to a fair trial as articulated in the Universal Declaration and the Covenant. The right to a fair trial has been the subject of more interpretation and adjudication than other rights in the Covenant. Accordingly, the book analyzes the fair trial jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee under the Covenant. The book also explores the process by which some aspects of the right to a fair trial have gradually been considered non-derogable, that is, not subject to suspension even in times of public emergency. This volume should provide a convenient tool for human rights advocates, judges, lawyers, scholars, and others involved with and interested in the right to a fair trial. This book is the first volume in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Series. The Series will consist of approximately 20 volumes, each dealing with a substantive right (or group of rights) set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Each volume is authored by an expert in human rights generally and in the particular subject addressed. Without losing sight of the political context in which the implementation of human rights must occur, each book provides a comprehensive, legally-oriented analysis of the rights concerned, including an examination of the legislative history of the text of each right as adopted in 1948, the right's subsequent articulation and interpretation by international bodies and in subsequent international instruments, and a survey of state practice in defining and enforcing the right.

Book Independent Africa  the Challenge to the Legal Profession  by  L  C  B  Gower

Download or read book Independent Africa the Challenge to the Legal Profession by L C B Gower written by Gower, L. C. B. (Laurence Cecil Bartlett) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book African Journal of International and Comparative Law

Download or read book African Journal of International and Comparative Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Access to Justice in Africa and Beyond

Download or read book Access to Justice in Africa and Beyond written by and published by Ntl Inst for Trial Advocacy. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: