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- Title
Informal Lawmaking in England by the Twelve Judges in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.
- Authors
Oldham, James
- Abstract
In 1848, Parliament created the Court for Crown Cases Reserved, in which all of the common law judges heard and decided questions reserved by trial judges in criminal cases. As Sir John Baker explains, this was “a court of record, which would now sit in public and give reasons for its decisions,” even though “the reservation of cases was still at the discretion of the trial judge and the court did not have the powers of the court en banc in civil cases.”
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; JUDGES; COMMON law; GREAT Britain. Parliament; BRITISH history, 1789-1820; BAKER, John; BRITISH law; COURTS; CIVIL procedure; HISTORY
- Publication
Law & History Review, 2011, Vol 29, Issue 1, p181
- ISSN
0738-2480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0738248010001252