Textbook on civil liberties

by Richard Stone

This second edition contains details of all major developments in this area since 1993, including the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, the Security Service Act 1996, the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and the Police Act 1997. A section dealing with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 has also been added. A section at the end of each chapter looks at the European aspects of each topic and recent decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, such as Goodwin (journalists' sources), Saunders and Murray (John) (the right to silence) are discussed, enabling the impact of the likely incorporation of the ECHR into English law to be assessed.

418 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Richard Stone is the senior science editor for HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, where he oversees science content for documentaries and other nonfiction productions and manages media partnerships. Prior to joining HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Stone was the international news editor at Science Magazine, where his writing often featured datelines from challenging reporting environments such as Cuba, Iran and North Korea.

Stone’s experience in international science and education includes stints as a Fulbright Scholar at Rostov State University in Russia in 1995-96 and at Kazakh National University in Kazakhstan in 2004-05. As a science writer, he has contributed to Discover, Smithsonian and National Geographic magazines, and is the author of the nonfiction book “Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant.” Stone earned a B.S. in genetics from Cornell University, and he did graduate work in biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania and science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In his spare time, he enjoys playing squash and writing science fiction screenplays.