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    Title
    The Bonfire of the Liberties
    Subtitle
    New Labour, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Keith Ewing
    Physical properties
    Format: Hardback
    Number of pages: 336
    Width: 162 mm
    Height: 241 mm
    Thickness: 25 mm
    Weight: 658 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Professional and scholarly
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780199584772
    ISBN 10: 019958477X
    Classifications
    BIC subject category: JPVH1
    BISAC category code: POL004000
    BISAC category code: LAW013000
    BISAC category code: LAW075000
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: S5.0
    Dewey: 342.41085
    BIC time period qualifier: 3JMC
    BIC time period qualifier: 3JJPR
    BIC geographical qualifier: 1DBK
    BICMainSubject: JPL
    Dewey: 323.0941
    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    Imprint name
    Oxford University Press
    Publication date
    06 May 2010
    Publication City/Country
    Oxford/GB
    Main description
    The Bonfire of the Liberties is a provocative book which confronts the corrosion of civil liberties under successive New Labour governments since 1997. It argues that the last decade has seen a wholesale failure of constitutional principle and exposed the futility of depending on legal rights to restrict the power of executive government. It considers the steps necessary to prevent the continued decline of political standards, arguing that only through rebalancing political power can civil liberties be adequately protected Relying on extensive new research of inaccessible sources, the book examines the major battlegrounds over civil liberties under New Labour, including the growth and abuse of police power, state surveillance and counter-terrorist measures. It unfolds a compelling narrative of the major battles fought before Parliament and in the courts, and attacks the failure of the political and legal systems to offer protection to those suffering abuses of their civil liberty at the hands of an aggressive Executive. In doing so, it offers a definitive account of the struggle for civil liberty in modern Britain, and a controversial argument for the reforms necessary to contain executive power.
    Review quote
    ...core content of considerable value...an excellent critique Geoffrey Robertson, New Statesman.com
    Biographical note
    Keith Ewing is Professor of Public Law at King's College London, and is one of the country's leading civil liberties lawyers. He is the author of Freedom under Thatcher: Civil Liberties in Modern Britain (with Conor Gearty) and his other books include The Right to Strike and The Struggle for CivilLiberties (also with Conor Gearty).
    Table of contents
    INTRODUCTION; 1. The Growth of Police Powers; 2. Surveillance and the Right to Privacy; 3. Freedom of Assembly and the Right of Public Protest; 4. Free Speech and the National Security State; 5. A Permanent Emergency and the Eclipse of Human Rights; 6. From Detention - to Control Orders - to Rendition; 7. Conclusion - Political Power not Legal Rights