Principles, Procedure, and Justice

Dr Rabeea Assy is an Assistant Professor at the University of Haifa Law Faculty and a regular speaker at the University of Oxford. In 2011 Dr Assy obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar and a Modern Law Review grantee. His LLB and LLM (ranked 1st in class, summa cum laude) were completed at the University of Haifa. In 2010-2011 Dr Assy was the Editor and subsequently the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, and in 2009 a Visiting Researcher at the Hauser Global Scholars Programme at New York University Law School. Dr Assy is an expert in comparative civil procedure. His work on litigation in person has earned him a number of prestigious awards and grants, including very generous research grants from the EU Marie Curie Actions Programme and the German-Israeli Fund. His work in this area has also been published in a number of leading journals across the Commonwealth. Andrew Higgins is a lecturer in civil procedure at the University of Oxford. He teaches civil procedure on the BCL/MJur programme, and has taught tort and contract at New College and University College Oxford. He is currently General Editor of Civil Justice Quarterly and the academic member of the Civil Justice Council. Andrew is also a practicing barrister at the Victorian Bar, specialising in complex civil litigation and class actions.

Contents
Table of Cases
Table of Legislation
List of Contributors

Introduction
1. A Man for All Processes
Samuel Issacharoff

Part I: The Changing Face of Evidence Law
2. Defining the Scope of the Hearsay Rule in Criminal Cases: A Comparative Perspective
Andrew L-T Choo
3. Common Law Principles and the Expression and Use of Forensic Evidence in Criminal Cases
Andrew Ligertwood
4. Adrian Zuckerman's New Evidence Scholarship
Paul Roberts

Part II: The Future of Judging
5. How Judges Decide
Robert J Sharpe
6. The Bright but Modest Potential of Algorithms in the Courtroom
Andrew Higgins, Inbar Levy, and Thibaut Lienart

Part III: Culture, Technology, and a New Paradigm for Proportionality
7. The Civil Online Court in England
Michael Briggs
8. Compliance Problems and Digitizing Case Management in England and Wales
John Sorabji
9. Taking Seriously Affordability, Expedition, and Integrity in Adjudication
Rabeea Assy

Part IV: Funding Justice
10. Funding Civil Litigation Through Legal Expenses Insurance in Germany
Peter Gottwald
11. Controlling Recoverable Costs
Rupert Jackson
12. Just Costs
Frederick Wilmot-Smith

Part V: History of Procedure and Procedural Powers
13. Does Procedural Mean Trans-substantive? A Historical and Normative Analysis of English Civil Procedure Rules
Carla Crifo
14. Inherent Jurisdiction and the Limits of Civil Procedure
Stuart Sime

Index