The principal questions addressed in this portfolio of eleven publications
concern the reforms to French justice at the end of the twentieth and beginning
of the twenty-first centuries. The portfolio is accompanied by a supporting
statement explaining the genesis and chronology of the portfolio, its originality and
the nature of the submission's distinct contribution to knowledge.
The thesis questions whether the reforms protect the rights of the defence
adequately. It considers how the French state views its responsibility to key
figures in criminal justice, be they suspected and convicted criminals, the
victims of offences or the professionals who are prosecuting the offences. It
reflects upon the role of the examining magistrate, the delicate relationship
between justice, politics and the media, breaches of confidentiality and the
catastrophic conditions in which suspects and prisoners are detained in French
prisons. It then extends its scope to a case study of the prosecution of violent
crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and discovers
significant flaws in procedures even at international levels. In concluding, it asks
whether, given the challenges facing the French criminal justice system, French
courts are adequately equipped to assure justice when suspects charged with
the most serious international crimes appear before them under the principle of
universal jurisdiction.
The research, carried out over a number of years, relies predominantly on an
analysis of French-language sources and represents a unique contribution to
the understanding and knowledge of French justice for an English-speaking
public at the turn of the twenty-first century.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/16020 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Trouille, Helen L. |
| Contributors | Dutton, Kathryn, Guth, Jess |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Faculty of Management and Law |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
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