Andrew Le Sueur (ed.)

Building the UK's New Supreme Court

National and Comparative Perspectives
Herausgeber: Le Sueur, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

In the context of the far-reaching reforms proposed for the Appellate Committee House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Building the UK's New Supreme Court considers the operation and reform of courts at the apex of the UK's legal systems. The chapters are linked by broad and overlapping themes. The first of these is the complexity of accommodating national differences within the UK into the institutional design of the new supreme court. It will be not only a court for the UK's three legal systems, and simultaneously a national institution of the whole UK, but it is also likely to be called upon to resolve division of powers disputes within the emerging system of multi-level government. A second theme is the scope for comparative lesson-learning from top courts in other legal systems: the Supreme Court of Canada, the US federal courts system, and the constitutional courts in Germany and Spain are considered. Thirdly, the connections between the UK's top-level court and other courts, especially intermediate courts of appeal, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights are examined.

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Reforming Top Courts is a collection of essays exploring the role and future of top-level national courts. The volume considers the operation and reform of top-level national courts in the United Kingdom, Canada, the USA, Germany, and Spain, with a particular focus on the Law Lords in the UK. From this basis, the contributors consider whether national courts can draw lessons from courts in other legal systems about effective procedures and methods of working.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780199264629
• ISBN-10: 0199264627
• Artikelnr.: 21668670

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Introduction
* 1: Professor Andrew Le Sueur: Comparative Lesson Learning and the
Court Reform Agenda
* Part II: Top-level National Courts in Devolved and Federal Contexts
* 2: Aidan O'Neill Q.C.: Scottish Perspectives on Top Court Reform
* 3: Professor Brice Dickson: Northern Ireland Perspectives on Top
Court Reform
* 4: Professor Andrée Lajoie: Canadian Attempts to Accommodate Regional
Difference in Court Design
* 5: Dr Kay Goodall: Ideas of 'representation' in United Kingdom Court
Structures
* 6: Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta: The Spanish Experience of Division of
Powers Adjudication
* 7: Warren Newman: The Canadian Experience of Division of Powers
Adjudication
* Part III: Top-level National Courts in the Wider Europe
* 8: Dr Rainer Nickel: The Bundesverfassungsgericht, the European Court
of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights
* 9: David Anderson Q.C.: The Law Lords and the European Courts
* Part IV: Intermediate Courts of Appeal and Top-level National Courts
* 10: Charles Blake and Professor Gavin Drewry: The Court of Appeal in
England and Wales and the House of Lords
* 11: Dr Russell Wheeler: The US Supreme Court and Federal Courts of
Appeals
* 12: Professor Andrew Le Sueur: Choosing Cases
* Part V: Judges
* 13: Dr Kate Malleson: Judicial Appointments in the Era of Human
Rights and Devolution
* 14: Richard Gordon Q.C.: Relationships between Bar and Bench