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Legal Foundations of Tribunals in Nineteenth Century England

By Chantal Stebbings

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780521107518, 9780511585821, 0521869072, 0521107512, 0511585829, 9780521869072
LCC
KD4890 .S74 2006
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1087377 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Edition
1
Pages
376\376
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Nineteenth-century governments faced considerable challenges from the rapid, novel and profound changes in social and economic conditions resulting from the industrial revolution. In the context of an increasingly sophisticated and complex government, from the 1830s the specialist and largely lay statutory tribunal was conceived and adopted as the principal method of both implementing the new regulatory legislation and resolving disputes. The tribunal's legal nature and procedures, and its place in the machinery of justice, were debated and refined throughout the Victorian period. In examining this process, this book explains the interaction between legal constraints, social and economic demand and political expediency that gave rise to this form of dispute resolution. It reveals the imagination and creativity of the legislators who drew on diverse legal institutions and values to create the new tribunals, and shows how the modern difficulties of legal classification were largely the result of the institution's nineteenth-century development.

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