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The independence of the judiciary : the view from the Lord Chancellor's Office /

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Using records kept by the Lord Chancellor's office, Stevens charts the progress of the concept of judicial independence through the Victorian era and the early 20th century up to 1963. We are reminded that of all our great institutions the judiciary has been subject to the least scrutiny and re...

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Main Author: Stevens, Robert Bocking
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Lord Chancellor's Department.
Grande-Bretagne. > Lord Chancellor's Department.
Judges > Great Britain.
Law > Political aspects.
Juges > Grande-Bretagne.
Droit > Aspect politique.
Judges.
Great Britain.
Rechterlijke macht.
Lord Chancellors.
Judiciary > Politics > History
England
Electronic books.
Book.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Lord Chancellor's Office and the Age of Muir Mackenzie
  • 2. The Schuster Era: High Policy
  • 3. Schuster and the Judges
  • 4. Schuster and the End of Empire
  • 5. The Era of Napier and Coldstream: Numbers, Appointment, and Control of the Judges
  • 6. The Era of Napier and Coldstream: The Use of the Judiciary
  • 7. Judicial Salaries from the 1940s to the 1980s
  • 8. The Later Years: Vignettes from the End of Empire.