Legal systems: courts and procedures

This book examines the factors that facilitate the inclusion of women on high courts, while recognizing that many courts have a long way to go before reaching gender parity.

Images of Justice resonates with voices of the North and comes alive through interviews with many of those involved in the cases - defendants, judges, and prosecutors.

Known as the "e;Great Dissenter,"e; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The book compares the different perceptions of legal disputes during litigation and mediation processes.

Problem-solving courts provide judicially supervised treatment for behavioral health needs commonly found among criminal offenders, including substance abuse and mental health disorders, and they treat a variety of offender populations.

Real advice you can trust and use in small claims court When every other method to collect has failed, a small claim is the right remedy to seek.

This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society brings together research by graduate students from universities in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Focusing on a single county at a time when the population grew from 24,000 to 246,000, the authors combine statistical analysis of documentary sources, contemporary newspaper accounts, and exploration in criminal case files to give a detailed reconstruction of the operations of the county's entire criminal justice system.

In recent years the Supreme Court has been at the center of such political issues as abortion rights, the administration of police procedures, and the determination of the 2000 presidential election.

For forty years David Meagher harboured a secret.

Geldwasche ist eine staatenubergreifende Problematik und als solche im Fokus der Europaischen Union.

This detailed analysis offers new perspectives on rhetoric and law from distinguished scholars.

This accessible guide to the U.

When the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance drafts its own procedural rules, and when it makes decisions on procedural matters, it turns to Paul Lasok's highly regarded book for confirmation and guidance.

The Youth Court Guide is the definitive legal handbook for practitioners involved in the youth court.

Baker argues that coordinate interpretation - a model which requires both elected and appointed officials to interpret the Charter - allows for the creation of a more robust democracy, alleviating some of the tension between constitutionalism and democracy while limiting judicial activism.

This book is a study of the social transformation of criminal justice, its institutions, its method of case disposition and the source of its legitimacy.

Known as the "e;Great Dissenter,"e; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Through the prism of litigation practice and tactics, Purcell explores the dynamic relationship between legal and social change.

Seit dem Erscheinen der Vorauflage ist der Gesetzgeber mit mehr als 20 Novellen am Kostenrecht tätig geworden, durch die auch das Gerichtskostengesetz zahlreiche Änderungen erfuhr, die eine Aktualisierung des bewährten Kommentars erforderlich machte.

This book is an inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democratic governance.

This book explores contemporary thinking on the evidential requirements that are critical for practical decision-making.

A chronological history of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, from its beginnings in the 1830s to the present.

Arguing with Tradition is the first book to explore language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system.

This volume takes a historical approach in analyzing all of the major United States Supreme Court cases relevant to the conflict between a free press and fair trial.

Criminal proceedings, it is often now said, ought to be conducted with integrity.

Build a strong foundation on the principles and procedures of modern forensic science.

Davis discusses the increasing role of interest groups, the press, and the public, whose role is not prescribed in the Constitution, in the selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and how it affects the process.

More than just another new theoretical study, this book really is a practical and useful tool that I sincerely recommend.

A commemoration of two significant dates, The Supreme Court of Canada and its Justices is also a colourful portrait and an indispensable reference book.

Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory.

Automatism is a notoriously difficult subject for law students, lawyers and judges.

Unknown and uncelebrated by the public, overshadowed and frequently overruled by the Privy Council, the Supreme Court of Canada before 1949 occupied a rather humble place in Canadian jurisprudence as an intermediate court of appeal.

Are you concerned about promoting transparency whilst protecting the privacy of vulnerable clients?

This collection is in honour of Adrian Zuckerman, Emeritus Professor of Civil Procedure at the University of Oxford.

Three case studies look into judicial co-operation between Member States and the ECJ.

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment.

Le présent ouvrage est publié à la suite du Colloque CEDIDAC du 18 septembre 2020 organisé par Prof.

This edition provides a comprehensively updated guide to the crime of aggression under the Statute of the International Criminal Court.

How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another?

This is the second edition of this wide-ranging survey of EU law.

Why there should be a larger role for the judiciary in American foreign relationsIn the past several decades, there has been a growing chorus of voices contending that the Supreme Court and federal judiciary should stay out of foreign affairs and leave the field to Congress and the president.

Criminal Evidence is a well-respected and trusted introduction to the rules of criminal evidence for criminal justice students and professionals.

The reform of the European Constitution continues to dominate news headlines and has provoked a massive debate, unprecedented in the history of EU law.

This is the first book to offer an extensive cosmopolitan, cross-cultural insight into the perennial controversy over the use of improperly obtained evidence in criminal trials.

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

This revised and fully up-to-date English translation of the 7th edition of the Casebook Verfassungsrecht includes a new outline of the German constitution, the BVerfG Court, and its jurisprudence.