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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Judicial behaviour"”.
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Judicial Behaviour in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Politics of the Minimum Standard of Treatment under the North American Free Trade Agreement
… on the theories and methods of judicial behaviour that originate from the American legal realism movement of the early 20th century, this work undertakes a non-empirical socio-legal research that studies the behaviour of ITA tribunals. It considers that law is indeterminate and …
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The Empirical Supreme Court: Analysing the Behavioural Patterns of Judges in the UK’s Highest Court
… [is] the essential characteristic of the English judicial function” (Blom- Cooper and Drewry) and my work seeks to examine to what extent this ‘individuality’ comes through in the UK context by trying to measure judicial behaviour (in terms of both case outcomes as well as reasoning). My work …
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Judicial politics in the Privy Council: a legal analysis of its impact on the constitutionality of the death penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean
… such as the Privy Council is the supreme judicial body for some Commonwealth countries. The main objective of this research is to understand the extent to which the Privy Council decision making on the constitutionality of the death penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean influenced by …
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The Growth and Limits of Judicial Independence in China
This thesis examines the nature and extent of judicial independence in China. In particular, it focuses on judicial adjudication (sifa shenpan) and explores the factors that affect judicial behaviour and how those factors influence and shape the judges’ decision-making process. In contrast to the …
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Penal Communication in Crown Court Sentencing
… The topic is important for three main reasons: judicial pronouncements at sentencing have the potential to impact defendants’ desistance pathways, to affect victims’ abilities to move on with their lives, and to influence wider public perceptions of the legitimacy of justice, and confidence that …