Politics of the common law

Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-349) and index.

'As a system ... the common law is a thing merely imaginary' -- Recording law's experience : features of the 'case' -- The postcolonial, the visible, and the invisible : the normal and the exceptional -- Institutionalizing judicial decision making : public reason and the doctrine of precedent -- What we talk about when we talk about common law : the practice of precedent -- The mirror and the dialogue : the common law, Strasbourg and human rights -- The judicial practice of statutory interpretation -- The politics of the judiciary revisited : rights, democracy, law -- Judges and democracy -- The integrity of the court : judgment and the prohibition on bias -- The value of participation : the rights of the defence, equality of arms, and access to justice -- Open justice, closed procedures and torture evidence -- Imagining civil justice -- Imagining criminal justice.