Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Preface to the first edition of ‘The Machinery of Justice in England’
- Abbreviations
- I Historical introduction
- II Civil jurisdiction
- III Tribunals
- IV Criminal jurisdiction
- V The personnel of the law
- VI The European dimension
- VII The cost of the law
- VIII Law Reform
- Appendix A The Report of the Civil Justice Review
- Table of Cases cited
- Table of Statutes cited
- Table of Stationery Office publications cited
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Preface to the first edition of ‘The Machinery of Justice in England’
- Abbreviations
- I Historical introduction
- II Civil jurisdiction
- III Tribunals
- IV Criminal jurisdiction
- V The personnel of the law
- VI The European dimension
- VII The cost of the law
- VIII Law Reform
- Appendix A The Report of the Civil Justice Review
- Table of Cases cited
- Table of Statutes cited
- Table of Stationery Office publications cited
- Index
Summary
I agreed to help Professor Jackson with the eighth edition of his book in 1984. Sadly, he was already in failing health and in 1986 he died, having been unable to do any more than read my preliminary attempt to edit the first two chapters and to offer his comments on my draft. Thus the changes in this edition are almost all my own.
Producing this new edition turned out to be an enormous task. The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 and a number of other very important developments have taken place since the seventh edition appeared in 1977. As a result it has been necessary to rewrite about a third of the book. Much of what was not rewritten has been heavily revised. Since the first edition appeared the book had more than doubled in length and the time had come, I felt, to cut out or condense a lot of detailed material which had been added when it was topical, but was now of only passing historical interest. I have indicated where this has been done, referring readers to the earlier editions. Clearly, there was also a need for a section on the influence of the EEC and other matters European.
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- Jackson's Machinery of Justice , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989