Independence of the Judiciary The View from the Lord Chancellor's Office

Name: Independence of the Judiciary The View from the Lord Chancellor's Office
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ISBN: 9780198258155

ISBN-10: 0198258151

ISBN-13: 9780198258155

Edition: 1993

Authors: Robert Stevens

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This modern study of the independence of the judiciary in England utilizes the perceptions of the Lord Chancellor's Office to provide a fresh examination of the importance of this concept in British constitutional law and politics. Working from the records of the Lord Chancellor's Office, the author discusses a number of issues: the appointment of judges and the attempt to remove them; the disciplining of judges; their role in the Courts; their executive responsibilities, and the role of English judges in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. This important work also examines the battles within and around the judiciary in the past thirty years, and places them in the broader context…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/20/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


List of Abbreviations


Prologue


The Lord Chancellor's Office and the Age of Muir Mackenzie


The Schuster Era: High Policy


Schuster and the Judges


Schuster and the Beginning of the End of Empire


The Era of Napier and Coldstream: Numbers, Appointment, and Control of the Judges


The Era of Napier and Coldstream: The Use of the Judiciary


Judicial Salaries from the 1940s to the 1980s


The Later Years: Vignettes from the End of Empire


Epilogue


Table of Offices


Bibliography


Index