Lions under the throne essays on the history of English public law
Francis Bacon wrote in 1625 that judges must be lions, but lions under the throne. From that day to this, the tension within the state between parliamentary, judicial and executive power has remained unresolved. Lions under the Throne is the first systematic account of the origins and development of...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2015
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Table of Contents:
- Lions in winter : public law in the twentieth century
- The dark satanic mills : the Victorian state
- New corn from old fields : the Hanoverian harvest
- Parchment in the fire : public law in the Interregnum - The future of public law
- The royal prerogative
- The sovereignty of parliament and the abuse of power
- The right to be heard
- The separation of powers
- Public law and human rights
- The state and the law
- Standing and 'sitting'
- Law without courts : the tribunal system
- The rule of law