Court of Appeal

Gavin Drewry is Professor of Public Administration at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is an honorary professor in the Law Faculty of UCL and is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences. Among the first of his many publications was Final Appeal: A study of the House of Lords in its Judicial Capacity (1972), co-authored with Louis Blom-Cooper. Sir Louis Blom Cooper QC has had a long and distinguished career as a practising barrister. Between 1989 and 1996 he served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal of Jersey and of Guernsey and was a Deputy High Court Judge in the Crown Office List (1992-1996). Among his many other public appointments, he was the last Chairman of the Press Council (1989-1990) and was Chairman of the Mental Health Act Commission (1987-1994). Charles Blake is a practising solicitor and serves as a part-time Immigration Judge. He has been a lecturer in law, and is a former senior member of the Government Legal Service.

Drewry, Blom-Cooper and Blake's stimulating analysis should be read by anyone interested in the business of the most important court in our legal system. David Pannick Q.C. Public Law Spring 2008 This is an invaluable work both of reference and scholarship...This book fills a long-standing lacuna most obvious to the scholars of adjudication and the English legal system. Carla Crifo Civil Justice Quarterly Vol 27, Issue 1 (2008) As well as collecting important information on the history, personnel and case-load of the court, the book contains a discussion of important policy issues such as the nature of appeal, case management and working methods in appellate courts. The book's obvious first audience is academic but practitioners before the Court of Appeal would be well-advised to dip into it to appreciate the context of their work. The book is leavened with shrewd, and sometimes amusing, observations and is very nicely produced. Ross Cranston QC, Professor of Law at LSE April 2007

• 1 Introduction The Research Agenda A Note on Methodology Plan of the Book Annex A: Data Collected for Each Case in the Data-Set Annex B: Researchers' Informal Aide-Memoire for the Conduct of Semi-Structured Interviews With Judges in the Court of Appeal 2 The Nature of the Appellate Process Appeals in Historical Perspective Species of Appeal The Rationale of English Civil Appeals Appeal and the Trial Process 3 Origins and Development of the Court of Appeal The Position Before 1875 A New Home for the New Court Rights of Appeal: From Hanworth to Evershed A Transatlantic Lesson? Slow Moves Towards Modernisation Since the 1960s Insights from Within The Woolf Reforms A View from the 1880s-Plus Ca Change? 4 New Public Management in the Court of Appeal: The Woolf and Bowman Reforms Thatcherism and the New Public Management Thatcherism Catches Up with the Judiciary New Public Management and the Courts-The Rising Tide The Woolf Reports on Civil Justice The Court of Appeal: From Woolf to Bowman Implementing Woolf and Bowman: The Tanfern Direction Judges as Case Managers? 5 A Right of Appeal? The New Procedure in Outline The Requirement for Permission to Appeal Dealing With an Application for Permission to Appeal Second Appeals Restrictions on Appeals about Case Management Appeals from Specialist Tribunals Reform of Permission to Appeal Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mediation, Costs, and Lower Courts After Permission to Appeal has been Granted: Review or Rehearing? The Outcome of an Appeal 6 The Court of Appeal at Work-Some Facts and Figures The Offi cial Statistics Permission to Appeal: The Procedure in Practice The Human Rights Act 1998 Where was PTA Applied for? Represented and Unrepresented Applicants Time Taken for Applications to be Processed Determination on the Papers, and Oral Hearings Judicial Time Taken to Hear PTA Applications Permission to Appeal Granted by the Court Below The Journey of an Application: an Applicant's Eye View of the Court of Appeal 7 The Judges Leading the Court: Masters of the Rolls The Court Today Who Goes Upstairs? Annex A: Masters of the Rolls, 1873-2006 Annex B: The Judges of the Court of Appeal(Civil Division) 8 Judgments Individuality and Collegiality Judgments: Single, Multiple or Composite Prolixity of Judgments 9 Unrepresented Applicants A Litigant's View The Taylor v Lawrence Effect The Case for Abolition of the Right to an Oral Hearing in Seeking Permission to Appeal 10 Who has the Last Word? the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords Review and Supervision Appeals in the Abstract Appealing to the Lords The Near-Extinction of Orally Argued Petitions for Leave The Final Court of Appeal in Parliament 11 Reversal by the Lords: Polanski, Porter, Roma, and Begum Polanski v Vanity Fair Appeal and Audit-The Dame Shirley Porter Case The Roma at Prague Airport Begum: Another Approach to Discrimination and Human Rights 12 The Court in the Twenty-first Century-Some Reflections