Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

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The Chinese Communist Party is eager to tout its commitment to the ‘rule of law’, by which they really mean rule by law. Our legal system often feels like it only works for the rich and powerful – for those who have the means to use the courts to enforce their will and defend their interests. But offering attention to such issues with a single spotlight, is like the RSC putting on Hamlet with only one actor. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

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I think that laws that encourage the destruction of the planet, and punish those who protest against them, are laws that are wrong,” Maugham tells Euronews Green. In Bringing Down Goliath , he makes other comments about the integrity of the judiciary which will anger colleagues. At times, he reveres liberal institutions, asserting he is ‘very proud to be a barrister’, but cites Judith Shklar’s dismissal of the rule of law as ‘just another one of those self-congratulatory rhetorical devices that grace the public utterances of Anglo-American politicians’. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.But in fact, many of New Zealand’s waterways are now destroyed, devastated by huge increases in dairy production and the agricultural runoff that generates,” he explains. In Bringing Down Goliath, Jolyon Maugham KC reveals the story behind these landmark cases and the hidden fault lines of our judicial system. It means that the body of cases upon which the author can make his arguments are limited, and this is a book attempting to make broad statements about the way the UK legal system functions. And the examples are scary if you believe in democracy and justice, if you don’t, this isn’t the book for you. Maugham would presumably point out that his instrumentalism is distinct because Maugham is not an authoritarian.