The Legend of St Yves: Law, Justice and Mediation (Colour Edition)

The Legend of St Yves: Law, Justice and Mediation (Colour Edition) - Paperback

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The Legend of St Yves: Law, Justice and Mediation (Colour Edition)

The Legend of St Yves: Law, Justice and Mediation (Colour Edition) - Paperback

by Bryan Gibson
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by Bryan Gibson (Author), Marcel Berlins (Foreword by)

The Legend of Saint Yves is not widely known in Britain, even though he is the patron saint of lawyers (among other things). In this informative account, Bryan Gibson places St Yves - born Erwan Helouri - on a par with Robin Hood, Jessie James and Ned Kelly in terms of their appeal to various national psyches - and up there alongside Joan of Arc and Bernadette of Lourdes as regards his native France. But whilst conventional outlaws used bows, arrows, six-guns and bullets to 'rob the rich to help the poor', St Yves challenged the poverty and social inequality which he saw as the root of many a prosecution or claim via argument, debate, reason and consensus. At a time when bribery and corruption was rife, St Yves waged an historic struggle to enhance the fairness of court and other proceedings and their outcomes. Hailing St Yves as an icon of justice, counselling, mediation and reform, Bryan Gibson explains why Erwan Helouri deserves to be better known, including for the values of decency, integrity and ethics that his approach to resolving conflict conveys. The result is not just a fascinating portrayal of the man but a work that will serve as an encouragement to anyone who believes that there are better ways of doing justice. Building on connections across time, place and elements of the supernatural, Law, Justice and Mediation: The Legend of St Yves also stands in its own right as an enlightening and compelling tale. A filip for all proponents of Restorative Justice - showing that such ideas have existed over time and place. As Guardian columnist and legal commentator Marcel Berlin writes in the Foreword: 'St Yves deserves to be far better known than he is, especially in the English-speaking world, and in Bryan Gibson he has found a worthy champion'. Bryan Gibson is a barrister and former co-editor of Justice of the Peace. He has written many books on aspects of criminal justic

Number of Pages: 96
Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN
Publication Date: February 01, 2008
ISBN9781909976061
Author Bryan Gibson
PublisherWaterside Press
GenreReligion & spirituality and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2008
LanguageENG- English
Pages96
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Bryan Gibson

Dr J.A.O.C. Brown was awarded his doctorate by the University of Cambridge for a thesis on Anglo-Moroccan Relations in the 18th and 19th centuries.Dr Bryan Gibson holds a PhD in International History from the London School of Economics (LSE) and was a Post- Doctoral Research Fellow at the LSE's Centre for Diplomacy and Strategy and an Instructor on Middle Eastern Politics in the LSE's Department of International History and the University of East Anglia's Department of Political, Social and International Studies (PSI). He is currently on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds and the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

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