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Rosemary Hunter, Clare McGlynn and Erika Rackley, Feminist Judgments. From Theory to Practice
Hart Publishing, Oxford, 470 p., 22,95£. ISBN :
9781849460538
While feminist legal scholarship has thrived within universities and in
some sectors of legal practice, it has yet to have much impact within the
judiciary or on judicial thinking. Thus, while feminist legal scholarship
has generated comprehensive critiques of existing legal doctrine, there
has been little opportunity to test or apply feminist knowledge in
practice, in decisions in individual cases. In this book, a group of
feminist legal scholars put theory into practice in judgment form, by
writing the ’missing’ feminist judgments in key cases. The cases chosen
are significant decisions in English law across a broad range of
substantive areas. The cases originate from a variety of levels but are
primarily opinions of the Court of Appeal or the House of Lords. In some
instances they are written in a fictitious appeal, but in others they are
written as an additional concurring or dissenting judgment in the original
case, providing a powerful illustration of the way in which the case could
have been decided differently, even at the time it was heard. Each case is
accompanied by a commentary which renders the judgment accessible to a
non-specialist audience. The commentary explains the original decision,
its background and doctrinal significance, the issues it raises, and how
the feminist judgment deals with them differently.
The books also includes chapters examining the theoretical and conceptual
issues raised by the process and practice of feminist judging, and by the
judgments themselves, including the possibility of divergent feminist
approaches to legal decision-making.
From the foreword by Lady Hale :
’Reading this book ought to be a chastening experience for any judge who
believes himself or herself to be both true to their judicial oath and a
neutral observer of the world… If lawyers and judges like me have so much
to learn from reading this book, then surely other, more sceptical,
lawyers and judges have even more to learn…other scholars, and not only
feminists, must also be fascinated by the window it opens onto the process
of judicial reasoning : not the straightforward, predetermined march from A
to B of popular belief, but something altogether more complicated and
uncertain. And anyone will find it a very good read.’
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