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100 1 _aIbhawoh, Bonny,
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245 1 0 _aImperial justice :
_bAfricans in empire's court /
_cBonny Ibhawoh.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aOxford, United Kingdom :
_bOxford University Press,
_c(c)2013.
300 _a1 online resource (x, 211 pages) :
_billustrations, map, portraits
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _aCover 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.
505 0 0 _aCustomary 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.
505 0 0 _aThe 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.
505 0 0 _aThe Imperative of Colonial DifferenceThe Persistence of Hegemony; The Legacies of Imperial Justice; Bibliography; Table of Cases; Index; Footnotes; Ch01fn; Ch02fn; Ch03fn; Ch04fn; Ch05fn.
520 0 _aImperial 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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610 1 0 _aGreat Britain.
_bPrivy Council.
_bJudicial Committee
_xHistory.
610 1 0 _aGreat Britain.
_bCourt of Appeal for Eastern Africa
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610 2 0 _aWest African Court of Appeal
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAppellate courts
_zAfrica
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650 0 _aJustice, Administration of
_zAfrica
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAppellate courts
_zGreat Britain
_xColonies
_xHistory.
650 0 _aJustice, Administration of
_zGreat Britain
_xColonies
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655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=678307&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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