Legal foundations of tribunals in nineteenth century England

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Law -- Great Britain -- History.

Tribunals and inquiries -- Great Britain -- History.

Tribunals and inquiries.

Administrative law.

1. Challenges to the legal process

2. The ideological and theoretical context

3. Composition and personnel

4. Jurisdiction and functional powers

5. Procedure and practice

6. Judicial supervision

7. Principles, place and perception.

From the 1830s the specialist and largely lay statutory tribunal was conceived and adopted as the principal method of both implementing new regulatory legislation and resolving disputes. This book shows how the modern difficulties of legal classification were largely the result of the institution's nineteenth-century development.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521869072

xxxi, 344 p.