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Penny Darbyshire Sitting in Judgment. Portland: Hart Publishing, 2011. 478 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2013

Richard Devlin
Richard Devlin*
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University of Research Professor Schulich School of Law Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 28 , Special Issue 2: Gender Equality, Legal Mobilization, and Feminism in a Multilevel European System , August 2013 , pp. 280 - 281
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1 Her criticisms of her research subjects are few. Her one major objection, which she makes several times, is about gender representation: “[T]he composition of the judiciary remains an international embarrassment” (p. 447). Her other criticisms include the unresponsiveness of judges to the needs of jurors (p. 208); a relative ignorance of procedures and practices in other common law jurisdictions (pp. 221–25); the residue of hierarchy; and the snobbery of judges who were formerly solicitors or barristers.