
8. The Judiciary and their Appointment
Alisdair A. Gillespie and Siobhan Weare
in The English Legal System (7th edn)
This chapter provides an introduction to the courts and tribunals judiciary. It discusses the judicial office, judicial appointments, judicial diversity, and judicial training. There are ...
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Administrative Law (11th edn)
William Wade and Christopher Forsyth
Wade & Forsyth's Administrative Law provides a perceptive account, and an unparalleled level of coverage, of the principles of judicial review and a sketch of the administrative ...
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9. Judges and judging
Fiona Cownie, Anthony Bradney, and Mandy Burton
in English Legal System in Context (6th edn)
This chapter discusses the following: the separation of powers; the independence of the judiciary; independence, separation, and judicial office; the selection of the judiciary; and ...
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O’Brien v Ministry of Justice (formerly Department of Constitutional Affairs) [2013] UKSC 6, Supreme Court
Thomas E. Webb
in Essential Cases: Public Law (2nd edn)
Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in O’Brien v Ministry of ...
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M v Home Office [1994] 1 AC 377, House of Lords (also known as Re M)
Thomas E. Webb
in Essential Cases: Public Law (2nd edn)
Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in M v Home Office [1994] 1 ...
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R (on the application of Cart) v The Upper Tribunal [2011] UKSC 28, Supreme Court
Thomas E. Webb
in Essential Cases: Public Law (2nd edn)
Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R (on the application of ...
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2. The institutions of government and the separation of powers
John Stanton and Craig Prescott
in Public Law
This chapter explores the key institutions — the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary — and considers the relevance of the principle of the separation of powers in respect of the ...
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1. Crime: definitions and conflicting images
Stephen Jones
in Criminology (6th edn)
This chapter describes the subject matter of criminology as self-evident. Both etymologically and in the largely unquestioning view of early positivists, criminology concerns the content ...
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4. The Invisible Palace:: II The Constitution
Geoffrey Rivlin
in First Steps in the Law (7th edn)
This chapter analyses the British Constitution and the three branches of government: the legislature, executive, and judiciary. The British Constitution has developed over 700 years, and is ...
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7. The Judiciary:: Our Law Upholders
Geoffrey Rivlin
in First Steps in the Law (7th edn)
This chapter talks about the judges who are responsible for upholding the law. One of their most important characteristics is that they are independent, which means that they must have no ...
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4. The Rule of Law
Andrew Le Sueur, Maurice Sunkin, and Jo Eric Khushal Murkens
in Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (4th edn)
This chapter explains ‘the rule of law’. It first presents a definition of the rule of law followed by a discussion of the practical protection of the rule of law. In Britain, all three of ...
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M v Home Office [1994] 1 AC 377, House of Lords (also known as Re M)
Thomas E. Webb
in Essential Cases: Public Law (3rd edn)
Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in M v Home Office [1994] 1 ...
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O’Brien v Ministry of Justice (formerly Department of Constitutional Affairs) [2013] UKSC 6, Supreme Court
Thomas E. Webb
in Essential Cases: Public Law (3rd edn)
Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in O’Brien v Ministry of ...
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2. The institutions of government and the separation of powers
John Stanton and Craig Prescott
in Public Law (2nd edn)
This chapter explores the key institutions—the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary—and considers the relevance of the principle of the separation of powers in respect of the UK ...
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6. Personnel of the English Legal System
Mark Thomas and Claire McGourlay
in English Legal System Concentrate: Law Revision and Study Guide
Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. This chapter looks at the multitude of different professionals, both ...
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24. Punishment and the idea of ‘just deserts’
Steve Case, Phil Johnson, David Manlow, Roger Smith, and Kate Williams
in Criminology
This chapter examines punishment as a means of dealing with crime and its implications for justice. It first introduces the key arguments advanced in support of the idea of punishment in ...
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Essential Cases: Public Law (2nd edn)
Thomas E. Webb
Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. Essential Cases provides you with succinct summaries of some of the landmark and ...
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Dimes v Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal (1852) III House of Lords Cases (Clark’s) 759, 10 ER 301, House of Lords
Thomas E. Webb
in Essential Cases: Public Law (2nd edn)
Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Dimes v Proprietors of ...
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R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 2) [2000] 1 AC 119, House of Lords
Thomas E. Webb
in Essential Cases: Public Law (2nd edn)
Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Bow Street ...
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R (on the application of Abassi) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Secretary of State for the Home Department [2002] EWCA Civ 1598, before the Court of Appeal
Thomas E. Webb
in Essential Cases: Public Law (2nd edn)
Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R (on the application of ...
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