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Building the UK's new supreme court : national and comparative perspectives / edited by Andrew Le Sueur.

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Building the UK's new supreme court : national and comparative perspectives / edited by Andrew Le Sueur.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors
Le Sueur, A. P. (Andrew P.)
Description
xxvii, 345 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Summary
This 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 UK, Canada, the USA, Germany and Spain, with a particular focus on the Law Lords in the UK.
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Alternative Title
Building the United Kingdom's new supreme court
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Actes de congrès.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-340) and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available online.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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
ISBN
  • 0199264627
  • 9780199264629
LCCN
^^2004558175
OCLC
  • 55081429
  • SCSB-9901582
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library