Publisher's Synopsis
"Zamir and Woolf: The Declaratory Judgement" is a practitioner text explaining the wide scope of the declaratory judgement as a public law remedy. Lord Woolf, while concentrating on declaratory relief, surveys large areas of the law in a practical manner and indicates further possible developments in the use of the remedy.;This work is written by one of the Lords of Appeal of the House of Lords, together with a practising barrister. It contains a chapter devoted to the role of the declaratory judgement in Scotland written by the Hon. Lord Clyde, and a chapter analyzing the use of the declaration in EEC law written by Professor Francis Jacobs, QC, Advocate-General to the European Court.;Since the publication of the first edition written by Professor Zamir in 1962 there has been a dramatic growth in the use made of the declaration by the courts.