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Free country : selected lectures and talks / Sydney Kentridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kentridge, Sydney, 1922- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Speeches, addresses, etc.
- Civil rights--South Africa.
- Civil rights.
- Law--South Africa.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (135 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Hart, 2012.
- Summary:
- Sydney Kentridge QC is admired as an outstanding lawyer and, during the apartheid years in South Africa, a courageous defender of the individual against an oppressive state. This collection includes memorable and often moving accounts of his experiences.
- Contents:
- The pathology of a legal system : criminal justice in South Africa
- The South African Bar : a moral dilemma?
- Civil rights in Southern Africa : the prospect for the future
- Law and lawyers in a changing society
- The ethics of advocacy
- Freedom of speech : is it the primary right?
- A judge's duty in a revolution : Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke
- The highest court : selecting the judges
- Taking liberties
- The rule of law : ideals and realities
- Evil under the sun : the death of Steve Biko
- A barrister in the apartheid years.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78225-348-3
- OCLC:
- 958501307
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