Comparing the Prospective Effect of Judicial Rulings Across Jurisdictions (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)

This work deals with the temporal effect of judicial decisions and more specifically, with the hardship caused by the retroactive operation of overruling decisions. By means of a jurisprudential and comparative analysis, the book explores several issues created by the overruling of earlier decisions. Overruling of earlier decisions, when it occurs, operates retrospectively with the effect that it infringes the principle of legal certainty through upsetting any previous arrangements made by a party to a case under long standing precedents established previously by the courts. On this account, in the recent past, a number of jurisdictions have had to deal with the prospect of introducing in their own systems the well-established US practice of prospective overruling whereby the court may announce in advance that it will change the relevant rule or interpretation of the rule but only for future cases. However, adopting prospective overruling raises a series of issues mainly related to the constitutional limits of the judicial function coupled by the practical difficulties attendant upon such a practice. This book answers a number of the questions raised by this practice. It makes use of the great reservoir of foreign legal experience that furnishes theoretical and practical ideas from which national judges may draw their knowledge and inspiration in order to be able to advise a rational method of dealing with time when they give their decisions.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, 3
Release date:	May 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Eva Steiner
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	382
Edition:	2015 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-16174-7
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Law > International law > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Criminal law Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-16174-1
Barcode:	9783319161747

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