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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Rise and expansion of the employment of judicial assistants -- 1.2 Concerns regarding judicial assistants' involvement in judicial decision-making -- 1.2.1 The judicial position and its safeguards -- 1.2.2 Sense of responsibility for the adjudication -- 1.2.3 Judges as editors of the assistants' work -- 1.2.4 Divergent goals and attempts to influence the outcome of cases -- 1.2.5 Reliance on statute, case law and judicial guidelines -- 1.2.6 Questioning the effectiveness and efficiency of judicial assistant employment |
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1.2.7 Legitimacy and trust in the judicial office -- 1.3 Research questions and approach -- 1.4 Structure of the book -- 2 Method of the empirical research -- 2.1 The qualitative multi-method approach and its challenges -- 2.1.1 Multi-method approach -- 2.1.2 Modification of the research approach and research focus during the data collection -- 2.1.3 External validity and verification of the research results -- 2.1.4 Respondents' behaviour related to the presence of the researcher -- 2.1.5 Research timeline -- 2.2 Following cases in the Dutch district courts -- 2.2.1 Court selection and access |
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2.2.2 Participant observations and document analyses in the followed cases -- 2.2.3 Interviews with the judges and judicial assistants involved -- 2.2.4 Additional gathering of information during the research stay -- 2.2.5 Data analyses -- 2.3 Additional interviews with respondents outside of the Dutch district courts -- 2.3.1 Exploratory and broadening interviews in other Dutch court settings -- 2.3.2 Interviews and observations conducted in England and Wales -- 3 Reflections on the Dutch judicial assistance model from an inter-jurisdictional perspective |
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3.1 The organisation of judicial assistance in the Netherlands -- 3.1.1 The history of Dutch judicial assistants -- 3.1.2 The Dutch judicial assistance models in district courts and criminal and civil Courts of Appeal -- 3.1.3 Judicial assistants at the courts of final appeal -- 3.2 Judicial assistance models in the US and England and Wales -- 3.2.1 US law clerks: young and ambitious personal assistants to judges -- 3.2.2 Traditional clerks as legal advisers of lay Magistrates -- 3.2.3 The recently introduced function of Judicial Assistants |
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3.3 Distinguishing features of the judicial assistance models -- 3.3.1 Reasons for employing judicial assistants -- 3.3.2 Ratio of judicial assistants to judges -- 3.3.3 The qualifications of judicial assistants and the terms of their employment -- 3.3.4 Duties of assistants and their participation in various stages of the judicial process -- 3.3.5 Judicial assistants' assignment to individual judges or the entire court -- 3.3.6 Judicial assistants working with professional or lay judges -- 3.4 Conclusion |
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4 Normative viewpoints on the involvement of judicial assistants: the rule of law versus the managerial perspective. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Law clerks -- Netherlands.
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Law clerks. |
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Netherlands. |
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District courts -- Netherlands.
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District courts. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Holvast, Nina In the Shadow of the Judge : The Involvement of Judicial Assistants in Dutch District Courts Portland : Eleven International Publishing,c2017 9789462367777 |
| ISBN |
9462747458 |
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9789462747456 (electronic book) |
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