Synopses & Reviews
This collection of essays on habeas corpus throughout the Commonwealth explores the fortunes of the writ and the conditions under which it has either flourished or waned. Drawing on a wide range of commonwealth authorities, and including materials from the colonial period as well as from ex-commonwealth or ex-empire states, the papers in this volume consider the diffusion of the writ, the myths surrounding it, and the uses to which the writ has been put that distinguish the remedy from the English experience.
About the Author
David Clark is Associate Professor at the School of Law, Flinders University, Australia
Gerard McCoy QC affiliated to the Law Faculty, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Table of Contents
1. Introduction : An Exegesis : Habeas Corpus
2. Myth and Reality : Habeas Corpus
3. Martial Law and Habeas Corpus
4. Emergencies and Habeas Corpus
5. Duration of Detention and Habeas Corpus
6. Geography, Jurisdiction and Habeas Corpus
7. Non-Custodial Restraint and Habeas Corpus
8. Bill of Rights, Constitutions and Habeas Corpus
9. Contempt of the Legislature and Habeas Corpus
Bibliography
Index