The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (CRA) has altered the channels of communication between the judiciary and the political class. This thesis investigates the changing role of the senior judiciary in England and Wales in making extrajudicial comments. The underlying theme in this thesis is how approaches to, and judicial self-regulation of, extrajudicial comment and judicial communication centres on the core principles of the separation of powers and judicial independence. In particular, the thesis focuses on speeches and oral evidence to Parliament, as increasingly important forms of judicial-political communication after the CRA, and the post-CRA guidance to judges to consider when communicating via these means. The thesis argues that...
Brief overview of the work of the Modernising Civil Courts and Crown Court Programmes in England and...
Within the classical tripartition of powers, courts and tri- bunals have always held the most margin...
This thesis investigates the reasons for the change in decision-making patterns in abstract judicial...
Some judges are born political, some seek out political power, and others have politics thrust upon ...
Judicial independence is generally understood as requiring that judges must be insulated from politi...
Examines the procedure allowing judges to give evidence to Parliamentary select committees about dra...
There is a common perception that, prior to the exclusion of serving judges from the House of Lords ...
Over the course of the 20th and 21st Centuries the judiciary have increasingly made decisions that h...
Judicial power in the United Kingdom has been a subject of contemporary debate within constitutional...
This paper explores the problems for judicial impartiality that a judge’s extrajudicial speaking or ...
One feature of judicial life that strikes most appointees to judicial office early on is the silence...
Over the last few decades, the UK has experienced a profound – if quiet – constitutional transformat...
Addison C. Harris Memorial Lecture presented April 9-10, 1981, at Indiana University School of Law, ...
PhDThe dramatic increase in public law and human rights cases coming before the UK Supreme Court (an...
The Senate’s role in judicial appointments has come under increasingly withering criticism for its u...
Brief overview of the work of the Modernising Civil Courts and Crown Court Programmes in England and...
Within the classical tripartition of powers, courts and tri- bunals have always held the most margin...
This thesis investigates the reasons for the change in decision-making patterns in abstract judicial...
Some judges are born political, some seek out political power, and others have politics thrust upon ...
Judicial independence is generally understood as requiring that judges must be insulated from politi...
Examines the procedure allowing judges to give evidence to Parliamentary select committees about dra...
There is a common perception that, prior to the exclusion of serving judges from the House of Lords ...
Over the course of the 20th and 21st Centuries the judiciary have increasingly made decisions that h...
Judicial power in the United Kingdom has been a subject of contemporary debate within constitutional...
This paper explores the problems for judicial impartiality that a judge’s extrajudicial speaking or ...
One feature of judicial life that strikes most appointees to judicial office early on is the silence...
Over the last few decades, the UK has experienced a profound – if quiet – constitutional transformat...
Addison C. Harris Memorial Lecture presented April 9-10, 1981, at Indiana University School of Law, ...
PhDThe dramatic increase in public law and human rights cases coming before the UK Supreme Court (an...
The Senate’s role in judicial appointments has come under increasingly withering criticism for its u...
Brief overview of the work of the Modernising Civil Courts and Crown Court Programmes in England and...
Within the classical tripartition of powers, courts and tri- bunals have always held the most margin...
This thesis investigates the reasons for the change in decision-making patterns in abstract judicial...