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The English judges : their role in the changing constitution / Robert Stevens.
- Title
- The English judges : their role in the changing constitution / Robert Stevens.
- Author
- Stevens, Robert (Robert H.)
- Publication
- Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2005.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 209 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Robert Stevens examines the political influences on the English judiciary and the influence the judiciary has had on politics during the 20th-century to ascertain what needs to be done to maintain its effectiveness in the 21st-century.
- Subjects
- Note
- Edition statement from preface to revised edition (p. [vii]).
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-202) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Setting the tone : the act of settlement and the emergence of the balance of powers -- 2. 1900-1960 : the declining role of the English judiciary -- 3. The gradual U-turn -- 4. The years of Conservative government (1979-1997) -- 5. Jurisprudence or politics -- 6. Balance of powers : the independence of individual judges -- 7. The balance of powers : the judges as a separate branch of government? -- 8. New Labour in power -- 9. The second coming -- 10. The future -- 11. Post script : the future is the present.
- ISBN
- 1841134953 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 60554397
- SCSB-10424867
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library