Subjects:

Caribbean , South America, Other Jurisdictions

Contents:

The role of the Court of Appeal

the legal profession

the rule of law

fundamental rights

sources of law

criminal law

law of torts

law of contract

property law.

This book is one of the few studies of how the rule of law has fared in a developing country since it achieved independence. The travails of the rule of law are related,intertwined with the problems of nation building in a multi-racial country.

It provides a gripping account of the subversion of democracy, political pressures on the judiciary, the submissiveness of the judiciary, the quest for the adaptation of the law in non-political areas, a depressing failure to protect fundamental human rights, and a quest to build a distinctive Guyanese jurisprudence in the midst of all of these difficulties.