Judging Civil Justice

Informationen zum Autor Dame Hazel Genn is Dean of Laws, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and co-director of the Centre for Empirical Legal Studies in the Faculty of Laws at University College London, where she is also an Honorary Fellow. In 2006, she was appointed an Inaugural Commissioner of the new Judicial Appointments Commission established under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and was a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life from 2003 to 2008. She worked with the Judicial Studies Board for 12 years, serving as a member of the Main Board and the Tribunals Committee, closely involved in the design and delivery of training for the judiciary at all levels. A leading authority on access to justice, she has published widely in the field. Klappentext A trenchant critique of developments in civil justice that questions modern orthodoxy and points to a downgrading of civil justice. Zusammenfassung This trenchant critique of developments in English civil justice! underlines its social purpose! challenges the diversion of cases from public courts to private dispute resolution! and points to the downgrading of civil justice in the face of escalating criminal justice spending. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: what is civil justice for?; 2. Civil justice: how much is enough?; 3. ADR and civil justice: what's justice got to do with it?; 4. Judges and civil justice; 5. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Hazel Genn, Hazel (University College London) Genn, Genn Hazel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521134392
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13439-2
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: The Hamlyn Lectures; The Hamlyn Lectures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, Wales, LAW / General, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general, Civil codes / Civil law