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Penny Darbyshire Sitting in Judgment. Portland: Hart Publishing, 2011. 478 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2013

Richard Devlin*
Affiliation:
University of Research Professor Schulich School of Law Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Book Reviews / Compte rendus
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Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association / Association Canadienne Droit et Société 2013 

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1 Her criticisms of her research subjects are few. Her one major objection, which she makes several times, is about gender representation: “[T]he composition of the judiciary remains an international embarrassment” (p. 447). Her other criticisms include the unresponsiveness of judges to the needs of jurors (p. 208); a relative ignorance of procedures and practices in other common law jurisdictions (pp. 221–25); the residue of hierarchy; and the snobbery of judges who were formerly solicitors or barristers.