Explores judicial independence, integrity and impartiality in Asia-Pacific countries.

First comparative study of women judges in the Asia-Pacific based on empirical socio-legal research.

This book brings together in one volume critical reflections on the experience of judicial reform in countries around the region, including India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. It focuses on practical reform experience, rather than theory and aims to identify strengths and weaknesses of various reform programmes and help in the development of good practices based on the lessons learnt. The topics covered include implementation of judicial reform initiatives, promoting access to justice, ethics and accountability, judicial education and skills development, and case management. The contributors to the volume are senior judges, court administrators, lawyers, scholars and representatives of civil society from across the region who have first hand experience of various reform programmes. One of the major and most unambiguous contentions of the volume is that the judiciary itself must play a pro-active role if judicial reform is to be achieved and the goal of economic growth is to be integrated with justice for all.

This book examines the numerous new courts created throughout Asia during the last 20 years, covering important jurisdictions including human rights, intellectual property disputes, bankruptcy petitions, commercial contracts, public law adjudication, personal law, labour and industrial disputes. It evaluates their performances, and considers the broader economic, social and political implications.

Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacificis an in-depth treatment of the features, best practices, challenges and future prospects for environmental courts and tribunals (ECTs) in the Asia-Pacific region. ECTs play an important role in improving environmental dispute resolution, access to environmental justice and environmental governance, but data and academic analysis on ECTs are very limited. This book fills that gap, with ten chapters authored by leading academics, judges and lawyers from multiple jurisdictions, including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines and Sri Lanka, as well as pan-Asia-Pacific and global perspectives

This manuscript is a collection of essays on various issues in Asia-Pacific legal systems. It has been written within the framework of comparative legal research; thus, chapters address various of the ASEAN nations, as well as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The topics in this comprehensive volume, which offer Canadian perspectives on contemporary Asian law, include securities, prostitution, environmental, and constitutional law.