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Zusatztext packs in much food for thought Informationen zum Autor Andrew Le Sueur read law at the London School of Economics and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1987. From 1988 to 2000 he taught in the Faculty of Laws, UCL before being appointed to the Barber Chair of Jurisprudence at The University of Birmingham in 2001. He is a visiting research fellow at UCL Constitution Unit. Klappentext Reforming Top Courts 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 United Kingdom, Canada, the USA, Germany, and Spain, with a particular focus on the Law Lords in the UK. From this basis, the contributors consider whether national courts can draw lessons from courts in other legal systems about effective procedures and methods of working. Zusammenfassung 'Building the UK's New Supreme Court' is a collection of essays by academics and legal practitioners on questions relating to the institutional and procedural design of the UK's proposed new top-level court. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Introduction 1: Professor Andrew Le Sueur: Comparative Lesson Learning and the Court Reform Agenda Part II: Top-level National Courts in Devolved and Federal Contexts 2: Aidan O'Neill Q.C.: Scottish Perspectives on Top Court Reform 3: Professor Brice Dickson: Northern Ireland Perspectives on Top Court Reform 4: Professor AndrÃ(c)e Lajoie: Canadian Attempts to Accommodate Regional Difference in Court Design 5: Dr Kay Goodall: Ideas of 'representation' in United Kingdom Court Structures 6: Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta: The Spanish Experience of Division of Powers Adjudication 7: Warren Newman: The Canadian Experience of Division of Powers Adjudication Part III: Top-level National Courts in the Wider Europe 8: Dr Rainer Nickel: The Bundesverfassungsgericht, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights 9: David Anderson Q.C.: The Law Lords and the European Courts Part IV: Intermediate Courts of Appeal and Top-level National Courts 10: Charles Blake and Professor Gavin Drewry: The Court of Appeal in England and Wales and the House of Lords 11: Dr Russell Wheeler: The US Supreme Court and Federal Courts of Appeals 12: Professor Andrew Le Sueur: Choosing Cases Part V: Judges 13: Dr Kate Malleson: Judicial Appointments in the Era of Human Rights and Devolution 14: Richard Gordon Q.C.: Relationships between Bar and Bench ...
List of contents
- Part I: Introduction
- 1: Professor Andrew Le Sueur: Comparative Lesson Learning and the Court Reform Agenda
- Part II: Top-level National Courts in Devolved and Federal Contexts
- 2: Aidan O'Neill Q.C.: Scottish Perspectives on Top Court Reform
- 3: Professor Brice Dickson: Northern Ireland Perspectives on Top Court Reform
- 4: Professor AndrÃ(c)e Lajoie: Canadian Attempts to Accommodate Regional Difference in Court Design
- 5: Dr Kay Goodall: Ideas of 'representation' in United Kingdom Court Structures
- 6: Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta: The Spanish Experience of Division of Powers Adjudication
- 7: Warren Newman: The Canadian Experience of Division of Powers Adjudication
- Part III: Top-level National Courts in the Wider Europe
- 8: Dr Rainer Nickel: The Bundesverfassungsgericht, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights
- 9: David Anderson Q.C.: The Law Lords and the European Courts
- Part IV: Intermediate Courts of Appeal and Top-level National Courts
- 10: Charles Blake and Professor Gavin Drewry: The Court of Appeal in England and Wales and the House of Lords
- 11: Dr Russell Wheeler: The US Supreme Court and Federal Courts of Appeals
- 12: Professor Andrew Le Sueur: Choosing Cases
- Part V: Judges
- 13: Dr Kate Malleson: Judicial Appointments in the Era of Human Rights and Devolution
- 14: Richard Gordon Q.C.: Relationships between Bar and Bench
