Exploring experiences of advocacy by people with learning disabilities [[electronic resource] ] : testimonies of resistance / / edited by Duncan Mitchell ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784177303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006
• ISBN: 1-280-73801-4; 9786610738014; 1-84642-511-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MitchellG. Duncan (Geoffrey Duncan)
• Disciplina: 362.3
• Soggetti: Learning disabilities - Treatment; Learning disabled - Services for; Intellectual disability facilities patients; People with mental disabilities - Care; Social advocacy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Exploring Experiences of Advocacy by People with Learning Disabilities:Testimonies of Resistance; Contents; 1.Introduction; Part I:Personal Accounts of Advocacy and Resistance; 2. Advocacy as Resistance:Speaking Up as a Way of Fighting Back; 3. Restriction and Resistance:The Experience of Life on a Locked Ward for People with Learning Disabilities; 4. 'I Would Never Walk, Talk, Sit or Stand!':The Girl on the Tricycle; 5. Two Pioneers of Self-advocacy:Ray Loomis and Tom Houlihan; 6. 'I've Had Enough of the Everyday Thing':Karen Spencer's Life Story; 7.Resilience and Resistance in the Life Histories of Three Women with Learning Difficulties in Iceland 8.Songs of Resistance; Part II: Speaking for Ourselves:Accounts of Self-advocacy in Action; 9.My Life, My Choices; 10.'What They Want - Yes, But What We Want - Bugger Us!'; 11. The Life of a Group and a Personal Story:Experiences from Huddersfield People First; Part III:Alliances with Others; 12. Fires Burning:Advocacy, Camping and Children with Learning Disabilities in ; Ontario, 1950-1990; 13.Resistance in Mencap's History; 14.One Man's Dream that Continues to Inspire Others; 15. Maureen Oswin and the 'Forgotten Children' of the Long-stay Wards: Research as Resistance 16. Resistance and Control: Mutinies at Brentry; 17.Taking a Stand Against the Odds; Part IV: Alternative Interpretations:Reflections on Resistance; 18. Assistance and Resistance:Making Sense of Inter-war Caring Strategies; 19. Stereotyped Behaviour:Resistance by People with Profound Learning Difficulties; 20.Conclusion; THE CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: This book charts the course through which people with learning disabilities have become increasingly able to direct their own lives as fully active members of their communities. Many of the personal accounts, photographs and songs included in this book will be accessible and encouraging to people with learning disabilities.

Criminal evidence and human rights : reimagining common law procedural traditions / edited by Paul Roberts and Jill Hunter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968597703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2012
• ISBN: 9781847319463; 1847319467; 9781472566010; 1472566017; 9781283657808; 1283657805; 9781847319456; 1847319459
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (451 p.)
• Disciplina: 345.06
• Soggetti: Evidence, Criminal; Human rights
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di contenuto: A constitutional revolution in South African criminal procedure? / P.J. Schwikkard -- Human rights in Hong Kong criminal trials / Simon N.M. Young -- Right to counsel during custodial interrogation in Canada : not keeping up with the common law Joneses / Christine Boyle and Emma Cunliffe -- Degrading searches and illegally obtained evidence in the Malaysian criminal justice system / Salim Farrar -- Human rights, constitutional law and exclusionary safeguards in Ireland / John Jackson -- The exclusion of evidence obtained by violating a fundamental right : pragmatism before principle in the Strasbourg jurisprudence / Andrew Ashworth -- Normative evolution in evidentiary exclusion : coercion, deception and the right to a fair trial / Paul Roberts -- Ozymandias on trial : wrongs and rights in DNA cases / Jeremy Gans -- Delayed complaint, lost evidence and fair trial : epistemic and non-epistemic concerns / David Hamer -- 'Give us what you have' : information, compulsion and the privilege against self-incrimination as a human right / Andrew L.-T. Choo -- The presumption of innocence as a human right / Hock Lai Ho -- Confronting confrontation / Mike Redmayne -- Human deliberation in fact-finding and human rights in the law of evidence / Craig R. Callen -- Reliability, hearsay and the right to a fair trial in New Zealand / Chris Gallavin -- Finessing the fair trial for complainants and the accused : mansions of justice or castles in the air? / Terese Henning and Jill Hunter -- Human rights, cosmopolitanism and the Scottish 'rape shield' / Peter Duff; Introduction-The Human Rights Revolution in Criminal Evidence and Procedure -- Paul Roberts and Jill Hunter -- 1. A Constitutional Revolution in South African Criminal Procedure? -- PJ Schwikkard -- 2. Human Rights in Hong Kong Criminal Trials -- Simon NM Young -- 3. Right to Counsel During Custodial Interrogation in Canada: Not Keeping Up with the Common Law Joneses -- Christine Boyle and Emma Cunliffe -- 4. Degrading Searches and Illegally Obtained Evidence in the Malaysian Criminal Justice System -- Salim Farrar -- 5. Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Exclusionary Safeguards in Ireland -- John Jackson -- 6. The Exclusion of Evidence Obtained by Violating a Fundamental Right: Pragmatism Before Principle in -- the Strasbourg Jurisprudence -- Andrew Ashworth -- 7. Normative Evolution in Evidentiary Exclusion: Coercion, Deception and the Right to a Fair Trial -- Paul Roberts -- 8. Ozymandias On Trial: Wrongs and Rights in DNA Cases -- Jeremy Gans -- 9. Delayed Complaint, Lost Evidence and Fair Trial: Epistemic and Non-epistemic Concerns -- David Hamer -- 10. 'Give Us What You Have'-Information, Compulsion and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination as a Human Right -- Andrew L-T Choo -- 11. The Presumption of Innocence as a Human Right -- Hock Lai Ho -- 12. Confronting Confrontation -- Mike Redmayne -- 13. Human Deliberation in Fact-Finding and Human Rights in the Law of Evidence -- Craig R Callen -- 14. Reliability, Hearsay and the Right to a Fair Trial in New Zealand -- Chris Gallavin -- 15. Finessing the Fair Trial for Complainants and the Accused: Mansions of Justice or Castles in the Air? -- Terese Henning and Jill Hunter -- 16. Human Rights, Cosmopolitanism and the Scottish 'Rape Shield' -- Peter Duff
• Sommario/riassunto: Criminal procedure in the common law world is being recast in the image of human rights. The cumulative impact of human rights laws, both international and domestic, presages a revolution in common law procedural traditions. Comprising 16 essays plus the editors' thematic introduction, this volume explores various aspects of the 'human rights ; revolution' in criminal evidence and procedure in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Singapore, Scotland, South Africa and the USA. The contributors provide expert evaluations of their own domestic law and practice with frequent reference to comparative experiences in other jurisdictions. Some essays focus on specific topics, such as evidence obtained by torture, the presumption of innocence, hearsay, the privilege against self-incrimination, and 'rape shield' laws. Others seek to draw more general lessons about the context of law reform, the epistemic demands of the right to a fair trial, the domestic impact of supra-national legal standards (especially the ECHR), and the scope for reimagining common law procedures through the medium of human rights. This edited collection showcases the latest theoretically informed, methodologically astute and doctrinally rigorous scholarship in criminal procedure and evidence, human rights and comparative law, and will be a major addition to the literature in all of these fields