The Justice Game

The Justice Game [Geoffrey Robertson] on leondumoulin.nl *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Justice Game.
Table of contents

The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson - Penguin Books Australia

This is a bizarre proposal from one who espouses himself to believe in the rule of law. If Ceausescu had been shot out of hand would Robertson and those of his ilk not have taken legal action against the Romanian Government on the grounds that it denied the Tyrant of the Carpathians his right to life?

Mix - Injustice: Gods Among Us Arcade #1- The Flash

I should have read for the bar. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. The prose is never pedestrian and does not dwell on abstruse points of law.

The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson QC

Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Edit Cast Series cast summary: Dominic Rossi 4 episodes, Diana Quick Kate Fielding 4 episodes, Michael Kitchen Tim Forsythe 4 episodes, Iain Cuthbertson Jack Flynn 4 episodes, Kenneth Bryans Bobby Dewar 4 episodes, James Cosmo Glen 4 episodes, Ron Donachie Alex Patterson 4 episodes, Hilton McRae Gerry Cowan 4 episodes, Paul Young Derek Crawford 4 episodes, Russell Hunter Sandy Sadowski 3 episodes, Paul Brooke Alistair Sinclair Murray 3 episodes, Jacqueline Gilbride Shona 3 episodes, Larry Pine Wendell Fergusson 3 episodes, Joss Ackland Sir James Crichton 2 episodes, Michael Culver Brian Ash 2 episodes, Rachel Boyd Janice Patterson 2 episodes, Terri Cavers Margaret Patterson 2 episodes, Stuart Davids Craig Scobbie 2 episodes, Roxanne Hart Deborah 2 episodes, Lorna Heilbron Gillian Forsythe 2 episodes, Celia Imrie Caroline Jarvis 2 episodes, Nancy Mitchell Mary Rossi 2 episodes, Dorothy Paul Carter 2 episodes, Gerry Slevin Enrico Rossi 2 episodes, Robert Stefani The Justice Game 3.

As a young Australian barrister, Robertson found himself involved in the Oz trial; a frothingly moralistic judge went to some lengths to jail three editors of an underground magazine, and was duly humiliated on appeal. Success leads to opportunity; Robertson has found himself at the heart of a sequence of crucial freedom of expression trials--the Gay News blasphemy trial, As a young Australian barrister, Robertson found himself involved in the Oz trial; a frothingly moralistic judge went to some lengths to jail three editors of an underground magazine, and was duly humiliated on appeal.

Success leads to opportunity; Robertson has found himself at the heart of a sequence of crucial freedom of expression trials--the Gay News blasphemy trial, the attempt to bust the National theatre over a play in which male rape took place, the arrest of a painter whose chosen subject was bank notes. His account of his career concentrates on these, and on his own entire brilliance in them; he is not a modest man, nor is there any particular reason why he should be, especially given how sharp and witty his accounts are. Anyone interested in the issues is going to find this a useful book--but the average intelligent reader is going to find the account of courtroom battles a guilty pleasure in itself.

Paperback , pages. Published February 4th by Vintage first published February 26th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Justice Game , please sign up.

Lists with This Book. May 31, Estelle rated it liked it Shelves: Since I'm feeling very bored from studying right now, I'll just copy and paste these two paragraphs from my english essay as a 'review' heh.

This is quite an interesting non-fiction text about human rights lawyer Jeffrey Robertson and his take on various cases from his legal career. The way he represents the British judicial system is quite fascinating and I would highly recommend this book if you like to read anything to do with the law, human rights or justice.

Unfortunately being forced to read this for school was very off-putting to say the least so my enjoyment of this book was heavily impeded. I've been scarred for life now Jul 04, Mark Colenutt rated it it was amazing. There goes the old joke that the smallest book in the world is the book of great Australian writers. Well, that book has grown immensely with the writings of this internationally renowned barrister. Britain is truly blessed to have him and it will be a sad loss if his native land ever retrieves him. He reached the pinnacle of his fame defending Salman Rushdie and is also involved in the defence of Julian Assange, to name another great Australian.

Geoffrey Robertson is the reason why anyone would There goes the old joke that the smallest book in the world is the book of great Australian writers. Geoffrey Robertson is the reason why anyone would want to become a lawyer to fight the good fight.

Supporting Information

His career is one long list of righteous battles against censorship and the abuse of power. His magnificent book 'The Justice Game', which was the book bargain of my life considering the content and the fact that I paid just a quid for a hardback copy, is a compilation of his most relevant fights for justice in the defence of freedom of speech and expression. From defending publications and writers to artists and actors, he has fended off the Bank of England, an army of Muslim lawyers and an outraged old lady to name but a few.

It features high profile cases from the history of recent Britain and most notably that of The Satanic Verses. It is a must read for anyone interested in UK history, law and you will discover that fact once more does surpass fiction.

About Calers

If you devour fictional lawyer novels, then this slice of reality will trump anything you have read to date. Robertson ensures that the scales of justice are kept firmly balanced so the rest of us may go out into the world and express our feelings without fear of arrest.

Mar 17, Peter rated it it was amazing Shelves: Geoffrey Robertson QC has written a truly fascinating overview of his career defending artists, publishers, poets, civil servants who have fallen foul or been accused of falling foul of laws to curb their free speech. Heartily recommended for lawyers or those with an interest in the subject. Apr 15, Lill Dong rated it liked it. Read the foreword, read the afterword. Robertson has provided an invaluable account of his legal career in defence of civil liberties, and delivers a fascinating and thought-provoking analysis of the duty of the courts to defend the rights of the common man against the power of the state.

Dspite not being naturally gifted as a writer, his zeal and dedication grip the reader from the outset. His passion to protect the sanctity of human rights has led him to become involved in some of the most important legal wrangles to secure Mid 4. His passion to protect the sanctity of human rights has led him to become involved in some of the most important legal wrangles to secure the independence of the justice system in the face of state interference.

The author's career path largely shadows that of his predecessor in the crusade to defend our freedoms, Gerald Gardiner, the defender of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', whose acceptance of the post of Lord Chancellor in Wilson's government was made dependent on abolition of the death penalty, and on abortion and homosexuality being protected outside the reach of the criminal law.

In addition, Gardiner would ensure through the Law Commission he estalished under Scarman, much reform of the archaic legal system. Robertson's first true foray entailed a defence of freedom of expression alongside John Mortimer against charges of corrupting public morals laid against the editors of a satirical magazine, 'Oz'. The author reveals that this law, created in to prosecute the poet Sir Charles Sedley for foolhardedly urinating onto a crowd from a balcony in Covent Garden, largely fell into disuse, until the voices of the establishment resurrected it in their attempts to rein in the Swinging Sixties.

The Justice Game

Robertson brilliantly captures the farce whereby the conservative elements of the establishment and the judiciary were determined to make the publication of a 'Rupert Bear' cartoon, in which the titular childhood figure proudly displays an erection,the trial case for the defence of public morals against obscenity.

Indeed, Robertson's determination to defend artistic freedom against charges of obscenity would bring him into repeated battles with the doyen of the conservative backlash, Mary Whitehouse, turning him into a veritable satanic figure for the latter. Of all these cases described wonderfully within the book, the most memorable was the author's defence of Salman Rushdie. Having had a fatwa imposed upon him by Khomeini, Rushdie actually sought secret refuge in Robertson's own apartment, before the latter agreed to defend the author of 'The Satanic Verses' against charges of blasphemous libel.

A similar death threat levelled against the defence team and presiding judge should a favourable judgment not be reached was defiantly ignored by Lord Justice Tasker Watkins, a fiery Welshman who had been awarded a VC in World War Two for single-handedly taking out a trench of 17 German soldiers. Robertson deserves all the plaudits for the UK government's belated decision to refuse to extend the blasphemy laws to other religions.

The underlying logic for the decision, based on Robertson's defence, being that the Christian faith, for which these laws had been created to defend, no longer itself employed them against its critics and detractors.

Another issue to which Robertson dedicates himself is the sanctity of human life, and his opposition to the death penalty. As such, he relates his own involvement in the fight to end what he believes is one of the greatest iniquities of capital punishment; namely, the inhumane practice of extending inmates' confinement on Death Row awaiting execution. This campaign stemmed from his own failure to prevent the long-delayed execution of another striking figure from the Sixties' counter-culture.