The Modern Judiciary
Challenges, Stresses and Strains
Published on 30. September 2010
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-0-85490-067-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the vocation of being a judge. It covers training, discipline and removal of judges as well as their position in the broader context as law-makers and servants of society.
The book is both comparative and practical while also examining the theory and jurisprudence of judging. It is full of practical examples drawn from the author's extensive experience and numerous contacts within the judiciary around the world. It examines their relationship to the societies they are representing and answerable to and their position and responsibilities as part of an international judicial brotherhood.
Although based in the Caribbean, the author is well known throughout the Commonwealth and in the United States as a writer on constitutional law and ethics.
The book is both comparative and practical while also examining the theory and jurisprudence of judging. It is full of practical examples drawn from the author's extensive experience and numerous contacts within the judiciary around the world. It examines their relationship to the societies they are representing and answerable to and their position and responsibilities as part of an international judicial brotherhood.
Although based in the Caribbean, the author is well known throughout the Commonwealth and in the United States as a writer on constitutional law and ethics.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85490-067-1 (9780854900671)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Sir Fred Phillips is the former Governor, St. Kitts/Nevis/Anguilla and a Barrister-at-Law and member of the Middle Temple. He is the author of six books on constitutional law and ethics of the legal profession
Content
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Table of Cases
Table of Abbreviations
1. Early Judicial Appointments Regimes and Their Evolution
2. Judicial Removal and Discipline
3. Judicial Tribulations and Other Problems
4. Further Judicial Impeachment Proceedings
5. Judicial Codes and Ethical Principles
6. Judicial Accountability
7. Judicial Bias and Disqualification
8. Judicial Education and Training
9. Judicial Law-Making
10. Judicial Internationalisation
11. Author's Summarising Reflections
Epilogue By Sir Fenton Ramsahoye QC
Bibliography
Index
Preface and Acknowledgments
Table of Cases
Table of Abbreviations
1. Early Judicial Appointments Regimes and Their Evolution
2. Judicial Removal and Discipline
3. Judicial Tribulations and Other Problems
4. Further Judicial Impeachment Proceedings
5. Judicial Codes and Ethical Principles
6. Judicial Accountability
7. Judicial Bias and Disqualification
8. Judicial Education and Training
9. Judicial Law-Making
10. Judicial Internationalisation
11. Author's Summarising Reflections
Epilogue By Sir Fenton Ramsahoye QC
Bibliography
Index