Хелена Кеннеди — новинки
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Eve Was Shamed: How British Justice is Failing Women Хелена Кеннеди
ISBN: 1784707686, 9781784707682 Год издания: 2019 Издательство: Vintage Язык: Английский In Eve Was Shamed Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discriminated against throughout the legal system, from the High Court (where only 21% of judges are women) to female prisons (where 84% of inmates are held for non-violent offences despite the refrain that prison should only be used for violent or serious crime). In between are the so-called ‘lifestyle’ choices of the Rotherham girls; the failings of the current rules on excluding victims’ sexual history from rape trials; battered wives being asked why they don’t ‘just leave’ their partners; the way statistics hide the double…
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Eve Was Shamed: How British Justice is Failing Women Хелена Кеннеди
ISBN: B079NSXGZT Год издания: 2018 Издательство: Vintage Digital Язык: Английский What comes after #MeToo? One of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights answers with this urgent, authoritative and deeply shocking look at British justice In Eve Was Shamed Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discriminated against throughout the legal system, from the High Court (where only 21% of judges are women) to female prisons (where 84% of inmates are held for non-violent offences despite the refrain that prison should only be used for violent or serious crime). In between are the so-called ‘lifestyle’ choices of the Rotherham girls; the failings of the current…
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Just Law: The Changing Face of Justice - and Why It Matters to Us All Хелена Кеннеди
ISBN: 0099458330, 978-0099458333 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Vintage UK Язык: Английский Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain today. Here she roundly challenges the record of modern governments over the fundamental values of equality, fairness and respect for human dignity. She argues that in the last twenty years we have seen a steady erosion of civil liberties, culminating today in extraordinary legislation that undermines long established freedoms.