Comparing the Prospective Effect of Judicial Rulings Across Jurisdictions

by Eva Steiner

Book Overview

This work deals with the temporal effect of judicial decisions and more specifically, with the hardship caused by the retroactive operation of overruling decisions. By means of a jurisprudential and comparative analysis, the book explores several issues created by the overruling of earlier decisions.

Overruling of earlier decisions, when it occurs, operates retrospectively with the effect that it infringes the principle of legal certainty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319383728
• ISBN13: 9783319383729
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"