Building the UK's New Supreme Court

National and Comparative Perspectives

Andrew Le Sueur

Relates to the very topical subjects of reform of the House of Lords, human rights and devolution
Of interest to academics and students working in the broad field of comparative law

Building the UK's New Supreme Court

National and Comparative Perspectives

Andrew Le Sueur

Description

In the context of the far-reaching reforms proposed for the Appellate Committee House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Building the UK's New Supreme Court considers the operation and reform of courts at the apex of the UK's legal systems. The chapters are linked by broad and overlapping themes. The first of these is the complexity of accommodating national differences within the UK into the institutional design of the new supreme court. It will be not only a court for the UK's three legal systems, and simultaneously a national institution of the whole UK, but it is also likely to be called upon to resolve division of powers disputes within the emerging system of multi-level government. A second theme is the scope for comparative lesson-learning from top courts in other legal systems: the Supreme Court of Canada, the US federal courts system, and the constitutional courts in Germany and Spain are considered. Thirdly, the connections between the UK's top-level court and other courts, especially intermediate courts of appeal, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights are examined.

Building the UK's New Supreme Court

National and Comparative Perspectives

Andrew Le Sueur

Part I: Introduction
1:Comparative Lesson Learning and the Court Reform Agenda, Professor Andrew Le Sueur
Part II: Top-level National Courts in Devolved and Federal Contexts
2:Scottish Perspectives on Top Court Reform, Aidan O'Neill Q.C.
3:Northern Ireland Perspectives on Top Court Reform, Professor Brice Dickson
4:Canadian Attempts to Accommodate Regional Difference in Court Design, Professor Andrée Lajoie
5:Ideas of 'representation' in United Kingdom Court Structures, Dr Kay Goodall
6:The Spanish Experience of Division of Powers Adjudication, Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta
7:The Canadian Experience of Division of Powers Adjudication, Warren Newman
Part III: Top-level National Courts in the Wider Europe
8:The Bundesverfassungsgericht, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights, Dr Rainer Nickel
9:The Law Lords and the European Courts, David Anderson Q.C.
Part IV: Intermediate Courts of Appeal and Top-level National Courts
10:The Court of Appeal in England and Wales and the House of Lords, Charles Blake and Professor Gavin Drewry
11:The US Supreme Court and Federal Courts of Appeals, Dr Russell Wheeler
12:Choosing Cases, Professor Andrew Le Sueur
Part V: Judges
13:Judicial Appointments in the Era of Human Rights and Devolution, Dr Kate Malleson
14:Relationships between Bar and Bench, Richard Gordon Q.C.

Building the UK's New Supreme Court

National and Comparative Perspectives

Andrew Le Sueur

Author Information

Andrew Le Sueur, Barber Professor of Jurisprudence, The University of Birmingham

Contributors:

David Anderson QC
Charles Blake
Professor Brice Dickson
Professor Gavin Drewry
Dr Kay Goodall
Richard Gordon QC
Snr Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta
Professor Andrée Lajoie
Professor Andrew Le Sueur
Dr Kate Malleson
Aidan O'Neill Q.C.
Dr Rainer Nickel
Dr Russell Wheeler

Building the UK's New Supreme Court

National and Comparative Perspectives

Andrew Le Sueur

Reviews and Awards

"The book is a valuable and timely contribution that will leave the reader with a sense of the competing demands and pressures on the designers of the Supreme Court. The book does not so much prescribe a vision for the court, but rather identifies how the various choices will have a substantive impact on the UK's political and legal culture. Any reader of this volume will gain a clear understanding of the important and complex issues that have been raised by the government's decision to create a Supreme Court." - The Cambridge Law Journal

"packs in much food for thought" - Commonwealth Law Journal