This book offers academic articles by distinguished jurists on judicial independence and judicial process in many jurisdictions including indicators of justice and analysis of international Standards on judicial independence and judicial ...

Against a backdrop of a dysfunctional criminal justice system, the authors bring an avalanche of legal and empirical material to question the legitimacy of the relationship between judges, lawyers, politicians and defendants in modern ...

Prompted by the events following the 2016 referendum on EU membership and written during the COVID-19 pandemic by one of the leading public lawyers of our day, this book considers two key constitutional principles, the rule of law and ...

The Pursuit of Justice prints for the first time a collection of lectures and papers written and delivered by Lord Woolf since 1986, following his retirement in 2005 from the office of Lord Chief Justice and a judicial career that has ...

This is the standard reference work for general damages in personal injury claims, and essential reading for all those involved in the area of personal injury.

In this brilliant short book, Britain's former senior law lord, and one of the world's most acute legal minds, examines what the idea actually means.

... Lord Chief Justice Willes , Mr. Justice Wilmot , and Mr. Baron Smyth . " What that legal fiction masked throughout the ensuing limbo was that in everything but name the new Lord Chief Justice of King's Bench also exercised the powers of ...

This book provides a unique oversight of judges’ work and contemporary legal challenges in Common Law and Civil Law countries, based on the legal practice and testimonies of senior members of the judiciary speaking up for justice and the ...