Trends in the Judiciary

David Lowe is a principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University’s Law School. Prior to becoming an academic, he was a police officer for 27 years with the UK’s Merseyside Police. Most of his service was as a detective, serving mainly in the United Kingdom’s Special Branch Counter-Terrorism Unit. His work on policing, terrorism, and security has been published in books and journals, including his books Policing Terrorism and Examining Political Violence: Studies in Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Internal War (2013). He edited the second volume of Trends in the Judiciary with Dilip Das in 2015. He works in an advisory capacity with Merseyside Police’s Prevent Team (part of their counter-terrorism section) and with SO15, Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism unit, for whom he is also an expert witness on tradecraft.Dilip K. Das is a professor of criminal justice, former police chief, and founding editor-in-chief of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. Das served in the Indian Police Service for 14 years. After moving to the United States, he became the founding president of the International Police Executive Symposium. Das has authored, edited, and coedited more than 30 books and numerous articles and is human rights consultant to the United Nations. He has received several faculty excellence awards and was a Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.

• Part I AfricaChapter One: Somaliland: Interview with the President of Supreme Court, Constitutional Court & the High Judicial Council of Somaliland: Mr Adam Haji Ali Ahmed Zahra JibrilPart II Asia Chapter Two: Interview with Mr. Hiroshi Kadono: Former Judge of the High Court, JapanMakoto Ibusuki Chapter Three: Interview with His Honour Judge Chaiwat Suriwattanakul, ThailandPrapon SahapattanaChapter Four: Interviews with Judges Jong-Yi Chiou and Meng-Hwang Lin, Taiwan High CourtJawjeong WuPart III AustralasiaChapter Five: Interview with the Right Honourable Diana Bryant, Chief Justice of the Family Court of AustraliaMolly Dragiewicz and Jessica TyzackPart IV EuropeChapter Six: Interview with Chief Judge Torben Nøies Goldin, DenmarkKim Møller and Lisa Jonassen RasmussenChapter Seven: Russian Judicial System. The interview Ludmila Viktorovna Zhukova, Judge of the Kingisepp City Court of Leningrad OblastNatalia Eremina and Artyom KureevChapter Eight: Interview with Her Honour Marilyn Mornington, District Judge, UKDavid LowePart V North AmericaChapter Nine: The Toronto Superior Court Experience: Interviews from Two JudgesWesley Crichlow and Liqun CaoChapter Ten: Interview of Judge Frank LaBuda: Judge at Sullivan County Court, USAMichael M. BerlinChapter Eleven: Interview with Francis X. Spina, Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court for the State of Massachusetts (USA)Philip D. McCormack and Francesca SpinaPart VI West Indies (Caribbean)Chapter Twelve: Interview with the Honourable Justice Mr Malcolm Holdip – High Court Judge, The Judiciary of Trinidad and TobagoWendell C. WallaceConclusionAppendix A: Questionnaire Used by the Interviewers