Independence, accountability and the judiciary / edited by Guy Canivat, Mads Andenas, and Duncan Fairgrieve.

London: BIICL, 2006.

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Judicial independence -- Europe.

Judicial power -- Europe.

Judges -- Europe.

1. Judicial independence and accountability: national traditions and standards --2. The responsibility of judges in France --3. Developing mechanisms for judicial accountability in the UK --4. The independence of the judiciary: a question of identity! --5. A Supreme Court for the United Kingdom: views from the northern kingdom --6. Judicial independence and accountability within the United Kingdom's new constitutional settlement --7. Modernizing the constitution: completing the unfinished business --8. Judges and politics: an essay from Canada --9. Judicial authority in a changing South Africa --10. Judicial accountability in Spain: an outline --11. The accountability and independence of judges: German perspectives --12. Quelques remarques d'ordre comparatif sur la notion d'accountability appliquee a la justice --13. Une justice 'compatable' de ses decisions? --14. Reflections on continental European Supreme Courts --15. External institutional control over judges --16. Le controle exerce par la cour des comptes --17. Le controle externe institutionnalise: de la responsabilite des magistrats et du service public de la justice --18. L'independance du judiciare: la controle interne --19. Le controle fonctionnel de gestion (1) --20. Le controle fonctionnel de gestion (2) --21. Accountability versus independence: the impact of judicial immunity --22. State liability for judicial wrongs and community law: the case Gerhard Koebler v Austria --23. Le controle informel: l'institution judiciaire, les juges et la societe (1) --24. Le controle informel: l'institution judiciaire, les juges et la societe (2) --25. Accountability of the judiciary on the national level for violations of the European Convention on Human Rights --26. Rendre compte de la qualite de la justice --27. Global lessons and best practices: corruption and judicial independence.

Includes bibliographical references.

English or French.

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