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13 lut 2024 · The importance of the rule of law -- Some history -- The accessibility of the law -- Law not discretion -- Equality before the law -- The exercise of power -- Human rights -- Dispute resolution -- A fair trial -- The rule of law in international legal order -- Terrorism and the rule of law -- The rule of law and the sovereignty of Parliament
Tom Bingham’s central premise defining the Rule of Law is that ‘all persons and authorities within the state, whether public or private, should be bound by and entitled to the benefit of laws publicly and prospectively promulgated and publicly administered in the courts’.
Britain's former senior law lord defines one of the key ideas in history and the contemporary world. This is a short but elegant and incisive examination of the 'rule of law' and will be influential in many related fields, including politics, society, philosophy and current affairs.
The rule of law is a loaded concept, fuelled by debates on what exactly should be included in its definition. Some of the principles that Bingham includes in his list of eight ingredients that make up his core of the rule of law are generally widely accepted to be part of the idea of the rule of law: accessible
7 lip 2011 · He briefly examines the historical origins of the rule, and then advances eight conditions which capture its essence as understood in western democracies today. He also discusses the strains...
In this brilliant short book, Britain's former senior law lord, and one of the world's most acute legal minds, examines what the idea actually means.
In it, he set out eight principles of the Rule of Law: (1) The law must be accessible and so far as possible intelligible, clear and predictable. (2) Questions of legal right and liability should ordinarily be resolved by application of the law and not the exercise of discretion.
