Legal Foundations of Tribunals in Nineteenth Century England

Chantal Stebbings is Professor of Law and Legal History in the University of Exeter. Her research is in the commercial legal history of the nineteenth century, with special reference to the law of taxation, trusts, and commercial property.

• Acknowledgements; Table of Statutes; Table of cases; List of abbreviations; 1. Challenges to the legal process; 2. The ideological and theoretical context; 3. Composition and personnel; 4. Jurisdiction and functional powers; 5. Procedure and practice; 6. Judicial supervision; 7. Principles, place and perceptions.

"This book is almost encyclopaedic in its coverage, and contains a great fund of information on these bodies which will be of great use to future scholars. It also includes a particularly useful chapter on the relationship between the tribunals and the superior courts, showing how the courts developed and exercised a power of judicial review of errors of law in the tribunals. It promises to be an essential reference point for future historians working on nineteenth century tribunals." --Michael Lobban, University of London: Law and History Review