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The Promotion Exams
No full text Mr. Devlin is author of Police Procedure, Administration and Organization </jats:p
Devlin P. Morals and Contemporary Social Reality / trans. from Engl. A. B. Didikin, O. A. Radchenko
No full textIn the seventh and final chapter of his «The Enforcement of Morals», P. Devlin
elaborates on a several of arguments for his polemic with H. L. A. Hart on issues
of the relationship between law and morals. Based on the recommendations of the
Wolfenden Committee which proposed a radical reform of English criminal law in
the direction of decriminalizing a few of criminally punishable offences with immoral
content, Devlin notes their extreme contradiction in terms of protecting the values
of public morals. The chapter also criticizes the key arguments of J. S. Mill’s doctrine
of the balance of liberty and state coercio
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Lord Devlin /
No full text"Lord Devlin was a leading lawyer of his generation. Moreover, he was one of the most recognised figures in the judiciary, thanks to his role in the John Bodkin Adams trial and the Nyasaland Commission of Inquiry. It is hard then to believe that he retired as a Law Lord at a mere 58 years of age. This important book looks at the life, influences and impact of this most important judicial figure. Starting with his earliest days as a school boy before moving on to his later years, the author draws a compelling picture of a complex, brilliant man who would shape not just the law but society more generally in post-war Britain"-
Lord devlin on the politics of enforcing morality
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to explore Lord Devlin's approach to the
enforcement of morals. The morals in question are those which are widely
recognized as being held in common by particular groups of people and
constitutes the morality of the society to which they belong. The enforcement is
that coercion which society is able to bring to bear upon the individual, above
and beyond that which inheres naturally in a social morality. Lord Devlin argues
that the enforcement of this morality is not in any way dependent upon a moral
appraisal of the morality itself: a consideration of its moral fitness for
enforcement. Such considerations are rejected by Devlin as being an unacceptable manner of governing the enforcement of a society's morality. His critics, arguing the opposite, have attempted to show that, for various reasons, it is not
acceptable for government to defer in such an uncritical fashion to the morality
it is attempting to enforce. However, Devlin's critics tend to exaggerate and
misinterpret the principle which underlies his approach to the enforcement of
morals. They falsely assume that Devlin sees value in nothing other than the
enforcement of a society's morality. In reality, Devlin believes that many values
may need to be balanced against this one. This is the essence of a practical or
political approach to the enforcement of morals, and it can only succeed if society
is entitled to exclude from its politics certain considerations: those which deny
that the enforcement of a society's morality has no value independent of the
other values with which it competes. Devlin's focus on the politics of the
enforcement of morality has certain similarities with the more contemporary
concern of some with moral neutrality in politics.Arts, Faculty ofPolitical Science, Department ofGraduat
The Promotion Exams
No full text This is the fourth of a series of articles of special interest to candidates for the Promotion Exams. The articles all deal with aspects of police administration and organization, which is one of the subjects in Part II of the syllabus, and of those sections of Part I of the syllabus which deal with police procedure. Mr. Devlin is Author of Police Procedure, Administration and Organization </jats:p
Moral Goals and Legal Coercion: Philosophical and Legal Arguments of Patrick Devlin
No full textThe paper analyzes the arguments of the British jurist P. Devlin on the possibility
of ensuring the achievement of moral goals by legal means. The views of P. Devlin
and his debate with H. L. A. Hart gave rise to deep discussions on the relationship
between moral and legal prescriptions in legislation and the search for moral
grounds for legal norms and practice of its application. The paper also reconstructs
P. Devlin’s arguments on the specifics of the application of the principle of harm
compensation in assessing actions that contradict public moralit
Procedure, Administration and Organization
No full text This is the first of a series of articles of special interest to candidates for the Promotion Exams. The articles all deal with aspects of police administration and organization, which is one of the subjects in Part II of the syllabus, and of those sections of Part I of the syllabus which deal with police procedure. Mr. Devlin is author of Police Procedure, Administration and Organization. </jats:p
The Promotion Exams
No full text This is the fifth of a series of articles of special interest to candidates for the Promotion Exams. The articles all deal with aspects of police administration and organization, which is one of the subjects in Part II of the syllabus, and of those sections of Part I of the syllabus which deal with police procedure. Mr. Devlin is Author of Police Procedure, Administration and Organization </jats:p
The Promotion Exams
No full text This is the third of a series of articles of special interest to candidates for the Promotion Exams. The articles all deal with aspects of police administration and organization, which is one of the subjects in Part II of the syllabus, and of those sections of Part I of the syllabus which deal with police procedure. Mr. Devlin is Author of Police Procedure, Administration and Organization </jats:p
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