Imperial justice : Africans in empire's court / Bonny Ibhawoh.
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TextPublication details: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, (c)2013.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations, map, portraitsContent type: - text
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- 9780191643170
- 9780191643187
- Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee -- History
- Great Britain. Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa -- History
- West African Court of Appeal -- History
- Appellate courts -- Africa -- History
- Justice, Administration of -- Africa -- History
- Appellate courts -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
- Justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
- KQC462 .I474 2013
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; 1. Africa and the Umpires of Empire; Constructing Colonial Difference; Imperial Universalism; Imperial Justice and the Colonial Legal Order; Scope and Method; 2. The Great Chief Overseas; An Appeal Court for the Empire; Law Court and Advisory Board; The Regional Courts of Appeal; 'The Daniels of the British Realm'; Judicial Uniformity and Colonial Difference; Seeking Imperial Justice; Merchants and Native Agitators; 3. Repugnant Customs and Alien Courts.
Customary Law and Native CourtsThe Doctrine of Repugnancy; Ascertaining Customary Law; Native Assessors and Colonial Justice; Inventors of Customary Law; Native Assessors and Criminal Procedure-The Dhalamini Case; Custom and Gender in an 'Alien Court'-Rex v Ndembera; Adjudicating Colonial Difference; Contesting Native Difference; 4. Medicine Murders and Blood Money; The Strange Case of Dr Knowles; Medicine Murder Appeals; The Kibi Murder Case; Criminal Justice and the Politics of Difference; Blood Money; Retribution versus Restitution; Conclusion; 5. Litigious Chiefs and Land Palavers.
The Colonial Land QuestionCrown Title versus Native Rights; Negotiating Difference: Amondu Tijani as Precedent; Contesting Authority: Eshugbayi Eleko v The Government; Conclusion; 6. Unknown God: The Limits of Imperial Justice; The Question of Colonial Representation; Cracks in the Imperial Judicial Edifice; South Africa: The Pearl Assurance Case; Salvaging the JCPC: A Peripatetic Commonwealth Court; Independence and the Abolition of Appeals; Kenya: Property Rights and the Settler Factor; Nigeria: Judicial Activism and Power Politics; Conclusion; 7. Conclusions.
The Imperative of Colonial DifferenceThe Persistence of Hegemony; The Legacies of Imperial Justice; Bibliography; Table of Cases; Index; Footnotes; Ch01fn; Ch02fn; Ch03fn; Ch04fn; Ch05fn.
Imperial Justice explores the imperial control of judicial governance and the adjudication of colonial difference in British Africa. Focusing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the colonial regional Appeal Courts for West Africa and East Africa, it examines how judicial discourses of native difference and imperial universalism in local disputes influenced practices of power in colonial settings and shaped an evolving jurisprudence of Empire. Arguing that the Imperial Appeal Courts were key sites where colonial legal modernity was fashioned, the book examines the tensions that pages.
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