The Court of Appeal

Zusatztext As well as collecting important information on the history, personnel and case-load of the court, the book contains a discussion of important policy issues such as the nature of appeal, case management and working methods in appellate courts. The book's obvious first audience is academic but practitioners before the Court of Appeal would be well-advised to dip into it to appreciate the context of their work. The book is leavened with shrewd, and sometimes amusing, observations and is very nicely produced. Informationen zum Autor Charles Blake is a practising solicitor and serves as a part-time Immigration Judge. He has been a lecturer in law, and is a former senior member of the Government Legal Service. Gavin Drewry is Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at Royal Holloway, University of London and Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Laws at UCL. Sir Louis Blom-Cooper was one of the most eminent lawyers and law reformers around. He was a KC and had an immensely distinguished career as a barrister but also as a broadcaster, author of books and public speaker. He was Chairman of the Howard League for Penal Reform and an adviser to Jack Straw on matters relating to the prison service. Klappentext Civil justice has been undergoing a massive transformation. There have been big changes in the management of judicial business; the Human Rights Act 1988 has had a pervasive impact; the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 has effected many changes - notably! the prospective transfer of the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords to a new Supreme Court. Against this backcloth of radical change! this book looks at the recent history and the present-day operation of the civil division of the Court of Appeal - a court that! despite its pivotal position! has attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention. It examines the impact of the permission to appeal requirements! and the way in which applications - particularly those by litigants in person - are handled; it looks at the working methods of the Lords Justices and at the leadership of the Court by recent Masters of the Rolls; it considers the relationship between the Court and the House of Lords - looking at high-profile cases in which the Court has been reversed by the Lords. Notwithstanding the impending arrival of the Supreme Court! it concludes that 'the Court of Appeal will remain firmly in place! occupying its crucial position as! to all intents and purposes! the court of last resort-indeed! a supreme court-for most civil appellants.' Zusammenfassung This book looks at the seldom explored history and the present-day operation of the civil division of the Court of Appeal. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 IntroductionThe Research Agenda A Note on Methodology Plan of the Book Annex A: Data Collected for Each Case in the Data-Set Annex B: Researchers' Informal Aide-Mémoire for the Conduct of Semi-Structured Interviews With Judges in the Court of Appeal 2 The Nature of the Appellate Process Appeals in Historical Perspective Species of Appeal The Rationale of English Civil Appeals Appeal and the Trial Process 3 Origins and Development of the Court of Appeal The Position Before 1875 A New Home for the New Court Rights of Appeal: From Hanworth to Evershed A Transatlantic Lesson? Slow Moves Towards Modernisation Since the 1960s Insights from Within The Woolf ReformsA View from the 1880s-Plus Ça Change? 4 New Public Management in the Court of Appeal:The Woolf and Bowman Reforms Thatcherism and the New Public Management Thatcherism Catches Up with the Judiciary New Public Management and the Courts-The Rising Tide The Woolf Reports on Civil Justice The Court of Appeal: From Woolf to Bowman Implementing Woolf and Bowman: The Tanfern Direction Judges as Case Managers? 5 A Right of Appeal? The New Procedure in Outline The Requirement for Permission to Appeal Dealing With an Applicatio...

Product details

• Authors: Charles Blake, Louis Blom-Cooper, Gavin Drewry, Gavin Blom-Cooper Drewry
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2007
• EAN: 9781841133874
• ISBN: 978-1-84113-387-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law