Tournament of Appeals - Granting Judicial Review in Canada

Roy B. Flemming is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A & M University.

List of contents

Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Judicial Review and Agenda Setting: American Accounts and the Canadian Setting
2 Tournaments and Stratification of Canada's Supreme Court Bar
3 Litigants, Lawyers, and the Tournament of Appeals
4 Tournament Rules and the Consequences of Institutional Choices
5 The Court Game: Strategy and Consensus among the Tournament's Judges
6 Conclusion: Canadian Variations of American Themes
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Roy B. Flemming is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A & M University.

Summary

Drawing from systematically collected information on the process, applications, and lawyers that has never before been used in studies of Canada’s Supreme Court, this book offers both a qualitatively and quantitatively-based explanation of how Canada’s justices grant judicial review.

Product details

• Authors: Roy B. Flemming
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9780774810838
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1083-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Weight: 200 g
• Illustrations: 6 b&w illustrations, 20 tables
• Series: Law and Society; Law & Society S; Law and Society
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries