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The Judicial House of Lords 1876–2009

Louis Blom-Cooper QC, Brice Dickson, and Gavin Drewry

Abstract

The House of Lords has served as the highest court in the UK for over 130 years. In 2009, a new UK Supreme Court will take over its judicial functions, closing the doors on one of the most influential legal institutions in the world, and a major chapter in the history of the UK legal system. This book gathers over forty leading scholars and practitioners from the UK and beyond to provide a history of the House of Lords as a judicial institution, charting its role, working practices, reputation, and impact on the law and UK legal system. The book examines the origins of the House's judicial wor ... More

Keywords: international reputation, legal profession, domestic perception, UK legal tradition, UK Supreme Court, UK legal system

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2009 Print ISBN-13: 9780199532711
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532711.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Louis Blom-Cooper QC, editor
Bencher of the Middle Temple

Brice Dickson, editor
Professor of International and Comparative Law, Queen's University Belfast

Gavin Drewry, editor
Professor of Public Administration, Royal Holloway, University of London

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgements

Detailed Contents

Editors’ Introduction

Notes on Contributors

Table of Cases

Table of Legislation

PART A THE INSTITUTION

1 The Judicial Role of the House of Lords before 1870

David Lewis Jones

2 The Judicial House of Lords: Abolition and Restoration 1873–6

David Steele

3 The Judicial Office

James Vallance White

4 The House of Lords and the English Court of Appeal

Gavin Drewry, and Louis Blom-Cooper

5 From Appellate Committee to Supreme Court: A Narrative

Andrew Le Sueur

PART B THE JUDGES

6 The Lord Chancellor as Head of the Judiciary1

Dawn Oliver

7 Appointments to the House of Lords: Who Goes Upstairs

Kate Malleson

8 The Law Lords: Who Has Served

Tom Bingham

9 1966 and All That: The Story of the Practice Statement1

Louis Blom-Cooper

10 Style of Judgments

Louis Blom-Cooper

11 Law Lords in Parliament

David Hope

PART C DEVELOPMENT OF THE COURT

12 The Early Years of the House of Lords, 1876–1914

Patrick Polden

13 A Developing Jurisdiction, 1914–45

DGT Williams

14 Towards a System of Administrative Law: The Reid and Wilberforce Era, 1945–82

Louis Blom-Cooper, and Gavin Drewry

15 The End of the Twentieth Century: The House of Lords 1982–20001

Michael Beloff

16 A Hard Act to Follow: The Bingham Court, 2000–8

Brice Dickson

PART D REGIONAL AND EXTERNAL PERSPECTIVES

17 (a) From Scotland and Ireland

Philip H Brodie

17 (b) From Scotland and Ireland

Ronan Keane

17 (c) From Scotland and Ireland

Brice Dickson

18 The Interplay with the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Kenneth Keith

19 (a) The Old Commonwealth

Michael Kirby

19 (b) The Old Commonwealth

Robert J Sharpe

19 (c) The Old Commonwealth

Arthur Chaskalson

19 (d) The Old Commonwealth

Adarsh Sein Anand

20 Reflections from the New Commonwealth

Fred Phillips

21 A Transatlantic Comparison

Tom Zwart

22 A European Perspective

Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen

23 (a) Views from Legal Practice

Arthur Marriott

23 (b) Views from Legal Practice

Mark Littman

24 A View from the City

Michael Blair

25 A Political Scientist's Perspective

Gavin Drewry

PART E SPECIFIC AREAS

26 International Law

Rosalyn Higgins

27 European Influences

Francis Jacobs, and David Anderson

28 Constitutional Law

Brigid Hadfield

29 Administrative Law

Paul Craig

30 Human Rights

David Feldman

31 Non-discrimination and Equality

Brenda Hale

32 Criminal Law

JR Spencer

33 Fair Trial: ‘One Golden Thread’

Anthony Hooper

34 Torts

Robert Stevens

35 Libel, Privacy, and Freedom of Expression

Eric Barendt

36 Family Law

Stephen Cretney

37 Land Law

Derek Wood

38 Commercial Law

Francis Reynolds

39 Intellectual Property

Robin Jacob

40 Tax Law

John Tiley, and Stephen Oliver

End Matter

APPENDIX 1 1 Lords of Appeal in Ordinary from 1876

APPENDIX 2 Who Succeeded Whom?

APPENDIX 3 Lord Chancellors From 1876

APPENDIX 4 Pen Portraits of the Lords of Appeal

Index