This is a ground-breaking text which seeks to guide practitioners as to how to spot a PIL point with reference to the key English Statute and case law principles. Based upon 25 years of experience in acting for and against States before the English Courts at all levels on such matters, the author has set out to demystify PIL and illustrate its increasing significance in English Court litigation. This book enables the reader to appreciate the recent application and development of the principles of PIL in this country in the best possible way Lord Phillips of Worth Maltraver (former President of the UK Supreme Court)
Khawar Qureshi QC was called to the Bar in 1990 and took Silk in 2006. He has taught law at Cambridge and London University and was an 'A' Panel UK Government Treasury Counsel before taking Silk. He was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 2014. Khawar is consistently regarded as one of the leading specialists in Public International Law and International Arbitration matters, and he has extensively appeared before Courts and arbitral tribunals on such matters.
Title: Public International Law before the English Courts (Legal Handbook Series)
Author: Qureshi, Khawar
ISBN: 9780854901951
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Publisher: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing
Publication Date: 2016-03-15
Number of Pages: 324
Weight: 0.5218 kg
...what is covered in this book is very well done, clearly and coherently written, and offers valuable summaries. Such a book is necessary and needed. -- fessor Robert McCorquodale * Counsel *