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UNINA9910779998703321 |
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Autore |
Siddique Osama |
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Titolo |
Pakistan's experience with formal law : an alien justice / / Osama Siddique [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-139-89182-0 |
1-107-25133-8 |
1-107-25050-1 |
1-107-24801-9 |
1-107-24884-1 |
1-139-81450-8 |
1-107-24967-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 469 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge studies in law and society |
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Justice, Administration of - Pakistan |
Law reform - Pakistan |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The hegemony of heritage : the "narratives of colonial displacement" : the absence of the past in Pakistani reform narratives -- Law in practice : the Lahore District Courts survey (2010-2011) -- Law, crime, context and vulnerability : the Punjab crime perception survey (2009-2010) -- Approaches to legal and judicial reform in Pakistan : post colonial inertia and the paucity of imagination in times of turmoil and change -- Reform on paper : a post mortem of justice sector reform in Pakistan from 1998-2010 -- Reform nirvanas and reality checks : justice sector reform in Pakistan in the twenty-first century and the monopoly of the "experts" -- Towards a new approach. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Law reform in Pakistan attracts such disparate champions as the Chief Justice of Pakistan, the USAID and the Taliban. Common to their equally obsessive pursuit of 'speedy justice' is a remarkable obliviousness to the historical, institutional and sociological factors that alienate Pakistanis from their formal legal system. This pioneering book highlights vital and widely neglected linkages between the 'narratives of |
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