Constitutional Remedies in Asia

Constitutional Remedies in Asia
Author: Po Jen Yap
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre: Judicial review
ISBN: 9780367660697

Many jurisdictions in Asia have vested their courts with the power of constitutional review. Traditionally, these courts would invalidate an impugned law to the extent of its inconsistency with the constitution. In common law systems, such an invalidation operates immediately and retrospectively; and courts in both common law and civil law systems would leave it to the legislature to introduce corrective legislation. In practice, however, both common law and civil law courts in Asia have devised novel constitutional remedies, often in the absence of explicit constitutional or statutory authorisation. Examining cases from Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines, this collection of essays examines four novel constitutional remedies which have been judicially adopted - Prospective Invalidation, Suspension Order, Remedial Interpretation, and Judicial Directive - that blurs the distinction between adjudication and legislation.

Constitutional Convergence in East Asia

Constitutional Convergence in East Asia
Author: Po Jen Yap
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2021-11-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108924832

The top courts in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea have reshaped constitutional law on non-discrimination, criminal due process, and free speech. This volume explores how their constitutional jurisprudence has converged in the process.

Constitutional Remedies in Asia

Constitutional Remedies in Asia
Author: Po Jen Yap
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429788126

Many jurisdictions in Asia have vested their courts with the power of constitutional review. Traditionally, these courts would invalidate an impugned law to the extent of its inconsistency with the constitution. In common law systems, such an invalidation operates immediately and retrospectively; and courts in both common law and civil law systems would leave it to the legislature to introduce corrective legislation. In practice, however, both common law and civil law courts in Asia have devised novel constitutional remedies, often in the absence of explicit constitutional or statutory authorisation. Examining cases from Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines, this collection of essays examines four novel constitutional remedies which have been judicially adopted - Prospective Invalidation, Suspension Order, Remedial Interpretation, and Judicial Directive - that blurs the distinction between adjudication and legislation.

Constitutions, Religion and Politics in Asia

Constitutions, Religion and Politics in Asia
Author: Dian A. H. Shah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2017-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107183340

Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.

Unstable Constitutionalism

Unstable Constitutionalism
Author: Mark Tushnet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107068959

This book examines constitutional law and practice in five South Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

Constitutional Courts in Asia

Constitutional Courts in Asia
Author: Hongyi Chen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110719508X

A comparative, systematic and critical analysis of constitutional courts and constitutional review in Asia.

A People's Constitution

A People's Constitution
Author: Rohit De
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691210381

It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society, and Rohit De looks at how drinkers, smugglers, petty vendors, butchers, and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. The Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence, took recourse to it, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws, and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution. Exploring how the Indian Constitution of 1950 enfranchised the largest population in the world, A People’s Constitution considers the ways that ordinary citizens produced, through litigation, alternative ethical models of citizenship.

National Human Rights Institutions in Southeast Asia

National Human Rights Institutions in Southeast Asia
Author: James Gomez
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2020-01-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811510741

This book reviews Southeast Asia’s National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) as part of an emerging assessment of a nascent regional human rights architecture that is facing significant challenges in protecting human rights. The book asks, can NHRIs overcome its weaknesses and provide protection, including remedies, to victims of human rights abuses? Assessing NHRIs’ capacity to do so is vital as the future of human rights protection lies at the national level, and other parts of the architecture—the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), and the international mechanism of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)—though helpful, also have their limitations. The critical question the book addresses is whether NHRIs individually or collaboratively provide protection of fundamental human rights. The body of work offered in this book showcases the progress of the NHRIs in Southeast Asia where they also act as a barometer for the fluid political climate of their respective countries. Specifically, the book examines the NHRIs’ capacity to provide protection, notably through the pursuit of quasi-judicial functions, and concludes that this function has either been eroded due to political developments post-establishment or has not been included in the first place. The book’s findings point to the need for NHRIs to increase their effectiveness in the protection of human rights and invites readers and stakeholders to find ways of addressing this gap.

Emerging Regional Human Rights Systems in Asia

Emerging Regional Human Rights Systems in Asia
Author: Tae-Ung Baik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107015340

Analyses the emerging human rights norms, regional institutions and enforcement mechanisms in Asia.