Appointments to the House of Lords: Who Goes Upstairs

The Judicial House of Lords 1876-2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Malleson, Kate ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appointment process; Career path; House of lords; Law lords; U.S. supreme court

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855250940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532711.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

References (9)

1. See, eg, L Blom-Cooper and G Drewry, Final Appeal: A Study of the House of Lords in its Judicial Capacity (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972);
2. AA Paterson, The Law Lords (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1982);
3. D Robertson, Judicial Discretion in the House of Lords (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998);
4. R Stevens, Law and Politics: The House of Lords as a Judicial Body 1800-1976 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1979).
5. See K Malleson, 'Judicial Bias and Disqualification after Pinochet (No 2)' (2000) 63 MLR 119.
6. R Stevens, The English Judge: Their Role in the Changing Constitution (Oxford: Hart, 2nd edn 2005) 39.
7. Lord Denning, The Road to Justice (London: Stevens & Sons, 1955) 17.
8. E Salzberger, 'The Judges of the English Court of Appeal: Public Decision-Making Characteristics and the Chances of Promotion to the House of Lords' in S Nagel (ed), Handbook of Global Legal Policy: Among and Within Nations (New York: Marcel Dekker, 2000) 223.
9. H Laski, 'The Technique of Judicial Appointment' (1926) 26 Mich L Rev 533-4.