Common law and modern society : keeping pace with change / Mary Arden, Lady Justice of Appeal.
2015
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Author
Title
Common law and modern society : keeping pace with change / Mary Arden, Lady Justice of Appeal.
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Call Number
KD671 .A97 2015
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780198755845 (hbk.)
0198755848 (hbk.)
0198755848 (hbk.)
Description
x, 317 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)935450368
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Table of Contents
Preface / Baroness Hale
vii
Acknowledgements
ix
Why a Second Volume?
1
SECTION A
LAW IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
Preface / Beverley McLachlin
8
I.
Responding to Social Change
1.
Water Matters
13
2.
Legal Problems at the Start and End of Life: The Role of Judges and Parliament
33
3.
Coming to Terms with Good Faith
48
4.
Economic Torts in the Twenty-first Century
64
5.
Duty, Causal Contribution, and the Scope of Responsibility: Does the Law of Negligence Impose Rational Limits?
82
II.
Absorbing the Impact of Constitutional Change
6.
Magna Cam and the Hidden Wiring of the Common Law
101
7.
Independence of the Judiciary and the Role of Parliaments
109
8.
What is the Safeguard for Welsh Devolution?
115
SECTION B
SIMPLIFICATION AND SYSTEMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAW
Preface / Lord Mackay
136
III.
Systematic Development and Reform of the Law
9.
Work of the Law Commission
143
10.
Improving the Statute Book 1: A Law Reformer's Viewpoint
164
IV.
Making Statute Law More Accessible
11.
Improving the Statute Book 2: Particular Ways to Help the User
169
12.
Modernizing Legislation: Signposts Along the Path
176
V.
Codification
13.
Time for an English Commercial Code?
191
14.
Criminal Law at the Crossroads: The Need for a Code
209
15.
Companies Act 2006: A New Approach to Directors' Duties
220
SECTION C
TOMORROW'S JUDICIARY
Preface / Jack Straw
238
VI.
Future of Judgment Writing
16.
Are Shorter Judgments Achievable?
241
17.
Matter of Style
247
VII.
Judiciary in the Twenty-first Century: the Old Order Changeth
18.
Magna Carta and the Judges: Realizing the Vision
263
19.
Women Judges: Britain's Place in the World
280
VIII.
Future is in Their Hands
20.
Woman Lawyer
287
21.
How to Succeed as a Pupil Barrister
289
Glossary
291
General Index
295
Names Index
315