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Genre/Form: | Book |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Barendt, E.M. Freedom of speech. Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press, 1985 (OCoLC)657299099 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
E M Barendt |
ISBN: | 0198253818 9780198253815 |
OCLC Number: | 11917608 |
Description: | xxii, 314 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Table of Decisions of the European Commission and Court of Human Rights -- Miscellaneous cases from other jurisdictions -- Why Protect Free Speech? -- Three Free Speech Theories -- Mill's argument from truth -- Free speech as an aspect of self-fulfilment -- The argument from citizen participation in a democracy -- Free Speech Interests -- Four Legal Systems -- Great Britain -- The United States of America -- West Germany -- The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- The Meaning Of Speech -- Speech and Conduct -- Speech and Money -- Commercial Speech -- A Right of Silence -- Freedom of the Press -- The Character And Scope Of Freedom Of Speech -- Political Arguments concerning Claim-Rights to Free Speech -- Access to Public Fora: Meetings and Processions -- Access to the Press and Media -- Access to Information -- Prior Restraints -- The Varieties and Vices of Prior Restraints -- Theatre and Film Censorship -- Official Secrets and Confidential Information -- Two Other Areas: Contempt of Court and the Licensing of Meetings -- Political Speech -- The Preferred Position of Political Speech -- Sedition and Related Offences -- Racialist Speech -- Disclosure of Official Secrets -- Libel. And Invasion Of Privacy -- Libel -- Invasion of Privacy -- Public Order -- Some Preliminary Observations -- Inflammatory Speech -- The Hostile Audience -- Free Speech And The Judicial Process -- Attacks on the Judiciary -- Prejudice to Criminal Trials -- Prejudice to Civil Trials -- A Right of Access to the Courts. |
Responsibility: | Eric Barendt. |
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Abstract:
The book excellently sets out the legal position, but it does rather more than that ... (it) will be a of value to thinking lawyers and to many laymen.'___Lord Goodman in London Review of Books . The paperback edition is revised and updated.
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