Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Andrew Le Sueur read law at the London School of Economics and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1987. From 1988 to 2000 he taught in the Faculty of Laws, UCL before being appointed to the Barber Chair of Jurisprudence at The University of Birmingham in 2001. He is a visiting research fellow at UCL Constitution Unit.

Reviews

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