Law, order and liberty : essays in honour of Tony Mathews / edited by Marita Carnelley and Shannon Hoctor ; assisted by Tarryn Winchester.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carnelley, M. (Marita), 1962-

Hoctor, Shannon Vaughn, 1967-

Mathews, Anthony S., 1930-1993.

Winchester, Tarryn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--South Africa.

Law.

Rule of law--South Africa.

Rule of law.

South Africa.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiii, 273 pages ; portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011.

Summary:

This collection of fifteen articles on law and activism, collected to honor the legacy of the prominent South African human rights activist and jurist, Tony Mathews, presents personal tributes and essays on a wide variety of subjects related to the career of this pioneer of modern legal practices in South Africa. Topics discussed include the South African constitution; administrative law and jurisdiction; state privilege in democratic South Africa; challenges in access to justice; and children, the law and alternatives to incarceration. Contributors include major figures in South African jurisprudence. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Personal tributes. Tony Mathews and criticism of the judiciary / John Dugard

The Dutch uncle / Marinus Wiechers

Policing conflict in South Africa: Professor Anthony Mathews and Pietermaritzburg conference of June 1991/ Avrom Sherr

My father Tony Mathews / Catherine Mathews. Legal essays. Securing the rule of law / Hugh Corder

Tony Mathews and the rule of law / Dennis Davis

The rule of law and the principle of legality in South African administrative law today / Cora Hoexter

Playing catch-up: the South African Constitution, administrative law and jurisdictional facts / Clive Plasket

State privilege in a democratic South Africa / P.J. Schwikkard

The darker reaches of government: an environmental perspective / Michael Kidd

Some tentative thoughts on the counter-majoritarian dilemma in the South African context: a constitutional and political conundrum / George Devenish

Challenges in increasing access to justice in the next decade / David McQuoid-Mason

Children locked up: towards detention as a measure of last resort / Ann Skelton

Re-imagining justice from the bottom up / Jan Froestad and Clifford Shearing. Centre for Criminal Justice. The legacy of Professor Mathews and the challenges of applied legal research in the twenty-first century / Winnie Kubayi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781869142148

1869142144

OCLC:

749853135