The Intricacies of Dicta and Dissent

Administrative / Constitutional Law

The Intricacies of Dicta and Dissent

By Neil Duxbury
Cambridge University Press August 2021

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ISBN-13
9781108841498
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
August 2021
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Common-law judgments tend to be more than merely judgments, for judges often make pronouncements that they need not have made had they kept strictly to the task in hand. Why do they do this? The Intricacies of Dicta and Dissent examines two such types of pronouncement, obiter dicta and dissenting opinions, primarily as aspects of English case law. Neil Duxbury shows that both of these phenomena have complex histories, have been put to a variety of uses, and are not amenable to being straightforwardly categorized as secondary sources of law. This innovative and unusual study casts new light on – and will prompt lawyers to pose fresh questions about – the common law tradition and the nature of judicial decision-making.

Table of Contents

Preface
Table of cases
Prologue
Essay I. Dicta: introduction
1. The civilian dimension
2. Case law as common law
3. 'Obiter' as legal entity
4. Dicta depicted
5. Oblique strategies
6. Engines of confusion
7. The necessity test
8. Cheap talk
9. Dicta and dicta
10. Nearly law?
11. Observation and authority
12. The sources problem
Essay II. Dissent: introduction
13. Some preliminary observations on dissent
14. The nature of judicial dissent
15. Without contraries is no progression?
16. Stalemates and motivations
17. Dissents, decisions, and courts
18. The tug of unanimity in England's courts
19. Dissent in an apex court
20. When is a dissent not a dissent?
21. Minorities as authorities
22. Are we agreed?
Index
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