Judging Civil Justice
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:15th Oct '09
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A trenchant critique of developments in civil justice that questions modern orthodoxy and points to a downgrading of civil justice.
This trenchant critique of developments in English civil justice, underlines its social purpose, challenges the diversion of cases from public courts to private dispute resolution, and points to the downgrading of civil justice in the face of escalating criminal justice spending.The civil justice system supports social order and economic activity, but a number of factors over the last decade have created a situation in which the value of civil justice is being undermined and the civil courts are in a state of dilapidation. For the 2008 Hamlyn Lectures, Dame Hazel Genn discusses reforms to civil justice in England and around the world over the last decade in the context of escalating expenditure on criminal justice and vanishing civil trials. In critically assessing the claims and practice of mediation for civil disputes, she questions whether diverting cases out of the public courts and into private dispute resolution promotes access to justice, looks critically at the changed expectations of the judiciary in civil justice and points to the need for a better understanding of how judges 'do justice'.
'Hazel Genn does not pull her punches. [The lectures] should be required reading especially for policy makers in government and for the senior judiciary.' Michael Zander QC, New Law Journal
ISBN: 9780521118941
Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
Weight: 440g
228 pages