Suing judges : a study of judicial immunity / Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku.
1993
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Author
Title
Suing judges : a study of judicial immunity / Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku.
Published
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Call Number
Comp 085 OL7 1993
ISBN
0198257937 (acid-free paper) :
Description
xxiv, 234 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)27812140
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [222]-225) pand index.
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Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Table of Cases
1
The Foundations
1
1.2In the Beginning
6
1.3Seventeenth-Century Developments in England
15
1.4Immunity for Other Courts in England
17
1.5Superior and Inferior Courts
19
1.6Modern Developments in English Law
21
1.7Judicial Immunity in American Law
23
1.8The Foundations: Summary
31
2
Shielding Judicial Action
33
2.2Judicial Acts
34
2.3General Points on Jurisdiction
52
2.4Jurisdiction, Good Faith, and the Superior Courts
54
2.5Judicial Acts and Jurisdiction Summarized
59
2.6Habeas Corpus Proceedings
60
2.7Immunity of Inferior Courts in England
64
2.8Inferior Courts in the USA
72
2.9Criminal Proceedings
74
2.10Shielding Judicial Action: Summary
77
3
Shielding Quasi-Judicial Action
79
3.2General Principles: The English Common Law
82
3.3General Principles: The USA
85
3.4Specific Offices
93
3.5Jurors
94
3.6Prosecuting Attorneys
96
3.7Arbitrators: English Law
110
3.8Arbitrators: The USA
113
3.9Derivative Immunity
114
3.10Execution of Court Orders and Processes
115
3.11Private Co-Conspirators
118
3.12Non-Private 'Co-Conspirators'
124
4
Judicial Defamations
125
4.2Judicial Defamations: General Principles
128
4.3'Judicial Proceedings'
129
4.4Motive
132
4.5Relevance
134
4.6Jurisdiction
136
4.7Transmission to Publishers
137
4.8Criminal Defamation
139
5
Redressing Judicial Wrongs
142
5.2Equitable Remedies
146
5.3Equitable Remedies: The English Experience
151
5.4Equitable Remedies: Observations
155
5.5Primary State Liability
157
5.6State Liability for Judicial Torts: Comments
164
5.7Primary State Liability: Constitutional Cases
166
5.8Maharaj v. AG of Trinidad and Tobago: Comments
170
5.9Redressing Judicial Wrongs: More Constitutional Issues
173
6
Absolute Judicial Immunity Derationalized
178
6.2Protecting Judges from Liability for Honest Mistakes
183
6.3Alternative Remedies
184
6.4Need for Finality
187
6.5Absence of Duty to the Individual
188
6.6The Deterrence Factor
189
6.7Protecting Judges from the Burdens of Litigation
190
6.8Independence of the Judiciary
193
6.9Integrity of Judges and the Judicial Process
195
6.10Benefit and Interest of the Public
196
6.11Deny Redress rather than Intimidate the Judiciary
197
6.12Conclusion: Judicial Self-Protection?
198
7
Absolute Immunity: Fixing the Limits
202
7.2Qualified Judicial Immunity: Practical Considerations
203
7.3Unlawful and Deliberate Infringements
204
7.4A Negligence-Based Limitation
212
7.5A Negligence-Based Limitation: Comments
214
7.6Qualified Immunity Revisited
215
7.7Qualified Immunity: Some Exceptions
216
7.8Fixing the Limits: Some Conclusions
217
7.9Fixing the Limits: The Reform Strategy
218
Bibliography
222
Index
227