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Focusing on how the expansion in size and the growth of power have affected all aspects of the judiciary, this book examines changes in three broad areas - judicial training, the appointment process and the scrutiny of judges' performance in light of the global expansion of judicial power.

Judicial independence is generally understood as requiring that judges must be insulated from political life. The central claim of this work is that far from standing apart from the political realm, judicial independence is a product of it. It is defined and protected through interactions between judges and politicians. In short, judicial independence is a political achievement. This is the main conclusion of a three-year research project on the major changes introduced by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, and the consequences for judicial independence and accountability. The authors...