Imperial justice : Africans in empire's court / Bonny Ibhawoh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibhawoh, Bonny, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee--History.

Great Britain.

Great Britain. Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa--History.

West African Court of Appeal--History.

West African Court of Appeal.

Appellate courts--Africa--History.

Appellate courts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (509 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Imperial Justice explores the imperial control of judicial governance and the adjudication of colonial difference in British Africa. Focusing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the colonial regional Appeal Courts for West Africa and East Africa, it examines how judicial discourses of native difference and imperial universalism in local disputes influenced practices of power in colonial settings and shaped an evolving jurisprudence of Empire. Arguing that the Imperial Appeal Courts were key sites where colonial legal modernity was fashioned, the book examines the tensions that p

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; 1. Africa and the Umpires of Empire; Constructing Colonial Difference; Imperial Universalism; Imperial Justice and the Colonial Legal Order; Scope and Method; 2. The Great Chief Overseas; An Appeal Court for the Empire; Law Court and Advisory Board; The Regional Courts of Appeal; 'The Daniels of the British Realm'; Judicial Uniformity and Colonial Difference; Seeking Imperial Justice; Merchants and Native Agitators; 3. Repugnant Customs and Alien Courts

Customary Law and Native CourtsThe Doctrine of Repugnancy; Ascertaining Customary Law; Native Assessors and Colonial Justice; Inventors of Customary Law; Native Assessors and Criminal Procedure-The Dhalamini Case; Custom and Gender in an 'Alien Court'-Rex v Ndembera; Adjudicating Colonial Difference; Contesting Native Difference; 4. Medicine Murders and Blood Money; The Strange Case of Dr Knowles; Medicine Murder Appeals; The Kibi Murder Case; Criminal Justice and the Politics of Difference; Blood Money; Retribution versus Restitution; Conclusion; 5. Litigious Chiefs and Land Palavers

The Colonial Land QuestionCrown Title versus Native Rights; Negotiating Difference: Amondu Tijani as Precedent; Contesting Authority: Eshugbayi Eleko v The Government; Conclusion; 6. Unknown God: The Limits of Imperial Justice; The Question of Colonial Representation; Cracks in the Imperial Judicial Edifice; South Africa: The Pearl Assurance Case; Salvaging the JCPC: A Peripatetic Commonwealth Court; Independence and the Abolition of Appeals; Kenya: Property Rights and the Settler Factor; Nigeria: Judicial Activism and Power Politics; Conclusion; 7. Conclusions

The Imperative of Colonial DifferenceThe Persistence of Hegemony; The Legacies of Imperial Justice; Bibliography; Table of Cases; Index; Footnotes; Ch01fn; Ch02fn; Ch03fn; Ch04fn; Ch05fn

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-174852-8

0-19-164318-1

0-19-164317-3