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Debating Judicial Appointments in an Age of Diversity by G Gee and E Rackley (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, 332 pp (£92.00 hardback). ISBN: 978-1-138-22535-0.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2019

Byron Karemba
Byron Karemba*
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Legal Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , June 2019 , pp. 358 - 360
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References

1 Eg see ‘The Guardian View on Judicial Diversity: Time, Gentleman, Please’ (The Guardian, 1 May 2017) available at https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2017/may/01/the-guardian-view-on-judicial-diversity-time-gentlemen-please.

2 For an overview of the contemporary debate on ‘judicial power’ in the UK see Craig, P ‘Judicial power, the Judicial Power Project and the UK’ (2018) 36 UQLJ 355Google Scholar.

3 Gee, G and Rackley, E Debating Judicial Appointments in an Age of Diversity (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018)Google Scholar.

4 G Gee and E Rackley ‘Introduction: diversity and the JAC's first ten years’ in Gee and Rackley, above n 3, pp 4–5.

5 Ibid.

6 Ibid, p 17.

7 Ibid, p 19.

8 Lady Hale ‘Appointments to the Supreme Court’ in Gee and Rackley, above n 3, ch 15.

9 C Stevens ‘The JAC first ten years’ in Gee and Rackley, above n 3, ch 2.

10 T Legg ‘Reflection’ in Gee and Rackley, above n 3, pp 25–31.

11 F Kirkham ‘Reflection’ in Gee and Rackley, above n 3, pp 142–145.

12 N Lloyd ‘Reflection’ in Gee and Rackley, above n 3, pp 146–151.

13 Eg in her reflective note, Kirkham comments on the JAC's ‘early hard battles with the senior judiciary, ministers and the MoJ’, above n 11, p 144.

14 Legg, above n 10, p 27.

15 T Legg ‘Judges for the new century’ (2001) PL 62 at 70.

16 Beg and Sossin in Gee and Rackley, above n 3, p 121.

17 J Morison ‘Beyond merit: the new challenge for judicial appointments’ in Gee and Rackley, above n 3, pp 236–237.

18 A Paterson ‘Power and judicial appointment: squaring the impossible circle’ in Gee and Rackley, above n 3, pp 32–59.

19 Lukes, S Power: A Radical View (London: Palgrave, 2nd edn, 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

20 Paterson, above n 18, p 33.

21 J van Zyl Smit ‘“Opening up” Commonwealth judicial appointments to diversity? The growing role of commissions in judicial selection’ in Gee and Rackley, above n 3, pp 75–76.

22 Paterson, above n 18, pp 47–48.

23 G Gee ‘Judging the JAC: how much judicial influence over appointments is too much?’ in Gee and Rackley, above n 3.

24 Ibid, pp 164–170.

25 Gee, G et al. The Politics of Judicial Independence in the UK's Changing Constitution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) pp 92–95CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

26 E Rackley and C Webb ‘Three models of diversity’ in Gee and Rackley, above n 3, p 282.