The Judicial House of Lords 1876-2009 / edited by Louis Blom-Cooper, Brice Dickson and Gavin Drewry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blom-Cooper, Louis, 1926-2018, editor.

Dickson, Brice, editor.

Drewry, Gavin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords--History.

Great Britain.

Courts of last resort--Great Britain--History.

Courts of last resort.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1980 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The House of Lords has served as the highest court in the UK for over 130 years. In 2009 a new UK Supreme Court will take over its judicial functions, closing the doors on one of the most influential legal institutions in the world, and a major chapter in the history of the UK legal system.This volume gathers over 40 leading scholars and practitioners from the UK and beyond to provide a comprehensive history of the House of Lords as a judicial institution, charting its role, working practices, reputation and impact on the law and UK legal system. The book examines the origins of the House's ju

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Summary Contents; Detailed Contents; Editors' Introduction; Notes on Contributors; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; Part A: The Institution; 1. The Judicial Role of the House of Lords before 1870; 2. The Judicial House of Lords: Abolition and Restoration 1873-6; The setting; The reception of Lord Selborne's Bill; Lord Cairns' honour; Arriving at a 'compromise'; 3. The Judicial Office; Lord Chancellor and Senior Law Lord; The establishment of the Appellate Committee; Life Peers; The final decades; The twenty-first century

4. The House of Lords and the English Court of AppealThe Court of Appeal-Civil Jurisdiction; Review and supervision; Leave to appeal; The demise of oral hearings; 'Leapfrog' appeals; The Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal; 5. From Appellate Committee to Supreme Court: A Narrative; Introduction; An idea whose time had yet not come; The U-turn; The phoney war; The Constitutional Reform Bill introduced in the Lords; The Bill goes to the Commons; Ping-pong; What did scrutiny of the Bill achieve?; A building fit for a Supreme Court; Implementation; Part B: The Judges

6. The Lord Chancellor as Head of the JudiciaryIntroduction; The Lord Chancellor in the Appellate Committee and the Privy Council; Judicial appointments, and the deployment and discipline of judges; Development of the law; The Lord Chancellor as protector of the judiciary; The Lord Chancellor as link and buffer between the executive and the judiciary and as champion of the judiciary; Mixed or separate roles?; The Lord Chancellor's Office and Department and the Permanent Secretary; Reflections; 7. Appointments to the House of Lords: Who Goes Upstairs; The make-up of the Law Lords

The career path to the LordsThe consultation process; The role of politics in the appointments process to the Lords; Lessons for the Supreme Court; 8. The Law Lords: Who has Served; 9. 1966 and All That: The Story of the Practice Statement; 10. Style of Judgments; A literary overview; The five examples; Doubt and dissent; Deliberations and delivery of judgments; Dead judgments and reporting; Prolixity of judgments; 11. Law Lords in Parliament; Judges as legislators; Part C: Development of the Court; 12. The Early Years of the House of Lords, 1876-1914; Composition; Politics

Jurisdiction and businessOrganisation and procedure; The Lords in action; 13. A Developing Jurisdiction, 1914-45; Survival and consolidation; Private and public law; Conclusion; 14. Towards a System of Administrative Law: The Reid and Wilberforce Era, 1945-82; Bias to the fore; Criminal appeals; Civil obligations; The emerging public law; Lord Reid's mantle; Procedural development; European influence; Conclusion; 15. The End of the Twentieth Century: The House of Lords 1982-2000; 16. A Hard Act to Follow: The Bingham Court, 2000-8; Introduction; Issues of judicial administration

The constitutional role of the Appellate Committee

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-969333-1

0-19-170548-9

0-19-102953-X

0-19-101888-0

OCLC:

1336403107