The House of Lords served as the highest court in the UK for over 130 years. In 2009 the new UK Supreme Court took 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 volume gathers over 40 leading scholars and practitioners from the UK and beyond to provide a comprehensive 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 work; the different phases in the court's history; the international reputation and influence of the House in the legal profession; the domestic perception of the House outside the law; and the impact of the House on the UK legal tradition and substantive law.The book offers an invaluable overview of the Judicial House of Lords and a major historical record for the UK legal system now that it has passed into the next chapter in its history.

The Judicial House of Lords: 1876-2009

History

Dickson, Brice

Blom-Cooper QC, Louis

Drewry, Gavin

Europe

Oxford University Press

The civil service today

This is a basic undergraduate textbook about the British Civil Service and how it fits in with the business of administration and government. After a brief history of how the current status and structure of the Civil Service came into being and an examination of what the Civil Service "is", the book looks at such matters as "getting in and getting on", the working environment, relationships with ministers and possibilities for future change and reform.

The Civil Service Today

Business & Money

Blackwell*publishers

B. Blackwell

In this revised and enlarged edition of their established textbook, Gavin Drewry and Tony Butcher bring their wide-ranging, critical survey of the Britsh civil service fully up-to-date, concluding with an examination of the nature and significance of the 'Next Steps' programme which is currently transforming the structure and management of the civil service.

Butcher, Tony

Administrative Law

Wiley/Blackwell

<p>Civil justice in the UK has been undergoing a massive transformation. There have been big changes in the management of judicial business, the Human Rights Act 1988 has had a pervasive impact, and the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 has effected many changes - notably, the prospective transfer of the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords to a new Supreme Court. Against this backcloth of radical change, this book looks at the recent history and the present-day operation of the civil division of the UK Court of Appeal - a court that, despite its pivotal position, has attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention. The book examines the impact of the permission to appeal requirements, and the way in which applications - particularly those by litigants in person - are handled. It also looks at the working methods of the Lords Justices and at the leadership of the Court by recent Masters of the Rolls, and it considers the relationship between the Court and the House of Lords, looking at high-profile cases in which the Court has been reversed by the Lords. Notwithstanding the impending arrival of the Supreme Court, the book concludes that 'the Court of Appeal will remain firmly in place, occupying its crucial position as, to all intents and purposes, the court of last resort - indeed, a supreme court - for most civil appellants.'</p>

The Court of Appeal

Blom-Cooper, Louis

Blake, Charles

Legal Education

Hart Publishing

This work argues that traditional forms of accountability, based on ministerial responsibility to Parliament, may need to be reassessed, and the new public management matched by a new administrative law.

Public Service Reforms: Issues of Accountability and Public Law (Constitutional Reform Series)

Oliver, Dawn

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