Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction
Notes on Contributors
PART A: THE INSTITUTION
1: David Lewis Jones: The Judicial Role of the House of Lords before 1870
2: David Steele: The Judicial House of Lords: Abolition and Restoration 1873-1876
3: James Vallance White: The Judicial Office
4: Gavin Drewry and Louis Blom-Cooper: The House of Lords and the English Court of Appeal
5: Andrew Le Sueur: From Appellate Committee to Supreme Court: A Narrative
PART B: THE JUDGES
6: Dawn Oliver: The Lord Chancellor as Head of the Judiciary
7: Kate Malleson: Appointments to the House of Lords: Who Goes Upstairs
8: Tom Bingham: The Law Lords: Who has Served
9: Louis Blom-Cooper: 1966 and All That: The Story of the Practice Statement
10: Louis Blom-Cooper: Style of Judgments
11: David Hope: Law Lords in Parliament
PART C: DEVELOPMENT OF THE COURT
12: Patrick Polden: The Early Years of the House of Lords, 1876-1914
13: David GT Williams: A Developing Jurisdiction, 1914-1945
14: Louis Blom-Cooper and Gavin Drewry: Towards a System of Administrative Law: The Reid and Wilberforce Era, 1945-1982
15: Michael J Beloff: The End of the Twentieth Century: The House of Lords 1982-2000
16: Brice Dickson: A Hard Act to Follow: The Bingham Court, 2000-2008
PART D: REGIONAL AND EXTERNAL PERSPECTIVES
17: From Scotland and Ireland
Philip H Brodie: (a) Scotland after 1707
Ronan Keane: (b) Ireland
Brice Dickson: (c) Northern Ireland after 1921
18: Kenneth Keith: The Interplay with the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
19: The Old Commonwealth
Michael Kirby: (a) Australia and New Zealand
Robert Sharpe: (b) Canada
Arthur Chaskalson: (c) South Africa
Adarsh Sein Anand: (d) India
20: Fred Phillips: Reflections from the New Commonwealth
21: Tom Zwart: A Transatlantic Comparison
22: Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen: A European Perspective
23: Arthur Marriott
: Views from Legal Practice

24: Michael Blair: A View from the City
25: Professor Gavin Drewry: A Political Scientist's View
PART E: SPECIFIC AREAS
26: Rosalyn Higgins: International law
27: Francis Jacobs and David Anderson: European influences
28: Brigid Hadfield: Constitutional law
29: Paul Craig: Administrative law
30: David Feldman: Human Rights
31: Brenda Hale: Non-discrimination and Equality
32: JR Spencer: Criminal Law
33: Anthony Hooper: Fair Trial: 'One Golden Thread'
34: Robert Stevens: Torts
35: Eric Barendt: Libel, Privacy, and Freedom of Expression
36: Stephen Cretney: Family law
37: Derek Wood: Land Law
38: Francis Reynolds: Commercial Law
39: Robin Jacob: Intellectual Property
40: John Tiley and Stephen Oliver: Tax Law
APPENDICES
i: Lords of Appeal in Ordinary from 1876
ii: Who Succeeded Whom?
iii: Lord Chancellors from 1876
iv: Pen Portraits of the Lords of Appeal

About the Author

Sir Louis Blom-Cooper is Bencher of the Middle Temple

Brice Dickson is Professor of International and Comparative Law, Queen's University Belfast Gavin Drewry is Professor of Public Administration, Royal Holloway, University of London

Reviews

`With the start of the new Supreme Court on October 1, 2009 this splendid book's appearance is timely, and of a special interest to show how the Law Lords handled crime.'
Florence O'Donoghue