Building the UK's new supreme court: national and comparative perspectives

Building the UK’s new supreme court: national and comparative perspectives

Building the UK’s new supreme court: national and comparative perspectives

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Edition Details

  • Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Andrew P. Le Sueur
  • Biografical Information: Andrew Le Sueur read law at the London School of Economics and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1987. From 1988 to 2000 he taught in the Faculty of Laws, UCL before being appointed to the Barber Chair of Jurisprudence at The University of Birmingham in 2001. He is a VIsiting research
    fellow at UCL Constitution Unit.
  • Language: English
  • Jurisdiction(s): England
  • Publication Information: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
  • Publication Type (Medium): Congrès
  • Material: Internet resource
  • Type: Book, Internet Resource
  • Other titles: Building the United Kingdom’s new supreme court
  • Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/building-the-uk-s-new-supreme-court-national-and-comparative-perspectives/ (Stable identifier)

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XXVII, 345 pages : ILlustrations, map ; 24 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Building the UK’s new supreme court: national and comparative perspectives is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

  • Responsable Person: edited by Andrew Le Sueur.
  • Publication Date: 2004
  • Country/State: England
  • Number of Editions: 12 editions
  • First edition Date: 2004
  • Last edition Date: 2004
  • Languages: British English
  • Library of Congress Code: KD7111
  • Dewey Code: 347.41035
  • ISBN: 0199264627 9780199264629
  • OCLC: 55081429

Main Contents

Introduction
The conception of the UK’s new Supreme Court
Top-level national courts in devolved and federal contexts
Judging democracy: the devolutionary settlement and the Scottish Constitution
A constitutional court for Northern Ireland?
Ideas of ‘representation’ in UK court structures
Possible means for an impossible task: accommodating regional differences through judicial design-the Canadian experience
Adjudicating divisions of powers issues: a Canadian perspective
Adjudicating in divisions of powers: the experience of the Spanish Constitutional Court
Top-level national courts in the wider Europe
The German Federal Constitutional Court: present state, future challenges
The law lords and the European courts
Intermediate courts of appeal and top-level national courts
The role of the Court of Appeal in England and Wales as an intermediate court
Intermediate courts of appeals and their relations with top-level courts: the US federal judicial experience
Panning for gold: choosing cases for top-level courts
Judges
Selecting judges in the era of devolution and human rights
The relationship between the Bar and the House of Lords.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Table of Cases
Table of Legislation
INTRODUCTION
1. The Conception of the UK’s New Supreme Court
Andrew Le Sueur
TOP-LEVEL NATIONAL COURTS IN DEVOLVED
AND FEDERAL CONTEXTS
2. Judging Democracy: the Devolutionary Settlement and the
Scottish Constitution
Aidan O’Neill
3. A Constitutional Court for Northern Ireland?
Brice Dickson
4. Ideas of ‘Representation’ in UK Court Structures
Kay Goodall
5. Possible Means for an Impossible Task: Accommodating
Regional Differences through Judicial Design-the Canadian
Experience
Andrde Lajoie
6. Adjudicating Divisions of Powers Issues: a Canadian Perspective
Warren J. Newman
7. Adjudicating in Divisions of Powers: the Experience of the Spanish
Constitutional Court
Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta
TOP-LEVEL NATIONAL COURTS IN THE WIDER EUROPE
8. The German Federal Constitutional Court: Present State,
Future Challenges
Rainer Nickel
9. The Law Lords and the European Courts
David Anderson

INTERMEDIATE COURTS OF APPEAL AND TOP-LEVEL
NATIONAL COURTS
10. The Role of the Court of Appeal in England and Wales
as an Intermediate Court
Charles Blake and Gavin Drewry
11. Intermediate Courts of Appeals and Their Relations
with Top-level Courts: the US Federal Judicial Experience
Russell R. Wheeler
12. Panning for Gold: Choosing Cases for Top-level Courts
Andrew Le Sueur
JUDGES
13. Selecting Judges in the Era of Devolution and Human Rights
Kate Malleson
14. The Relationship between the Bar and the House of Lords
Richard Gordon
Bibliography
Index

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