The Declaratory Judgment

"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.