Neil Duxbury

The Intricacies of Dicta and Dissent

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Produktbeschreibung

The book is aimed at judges, barristers and academic lawyers. It examines obiter dicta and dissenting opinions as aspects of English case law. The author shows that dicta and dissent have complex histories, have been put to various uses, and resist straightforward categorization as secondary sources of law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 571g
• ISBN-13: 9781108841498
• ISBN-10: 110884149X
• Artikelnr.: 62214919

Autorenporträt

Neil Duxbury is Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics. He is author of Patterns of American Jurisprudence (1995), Random Justice (1999), Jurists and Judges (2001), Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition (2004), The Nature and Authority of Precedent (2008), Elements of Legislation (2013), and Lord Kilmuir (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Table of cases
Prologue
Essay I. Dicta: introduction
1. The civilian dimension
2. Case law as common law
3. 'Obiter' as legal entity
4. Dicta depicted
5. Oblique strategies
6. Engines of confusion
7. The necessity test
8. Cheap talk
9. Dicta and dicta
10. Nearly law?
11. Observation and authority
12. The sources problem
Essay II. Dissent: introduction
13. Some preliminary observations on dissent
14. The nature of judicial dissent
15. Without contraries is no progression?
16. Stalemates and motivations
17. Dissents, decisions, and courts
18. The tug of unanimity in England's courts
19. Dissent in an apex court
20. When is a dissent not a dissent?
21. Minorities as authorities
22. Are we agreed?
Index.