'Getting through the list': Judgecraft and legitimacy in the lower courts

Social and Legal Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 341-361

  Mack, Kathy ^a   Anleu, Sharyn Roach ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Court observation research; Criminal list; Judicial decision making; Lower courts; Magistrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547894701     PISSN: 09646639     EISSN: 14617390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0964663907079763     Document Type: Article

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