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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- History -- 1. Law as History -- The Anisminic saga -- Crime at common law -- Politics and slavery -- Law's whiteout -- History and law -- 2. The History of English Law -- Final appeals -- The Law Courts -- Public law -- The Plimsoll line -- Public administration and crime -- Women as persons -- 3. Human Rights and the Whirligig of Time -- Rights in space -- A British bill of rights? -- Rights in time -- Why human rights? -- How evident is self-evident? -- Engines of change -- Lawful violations -- Relativism and absolutism -- Sources -- 4. A Glorious Revolution? -- 5. Judges and Ministers -- 6. Obscenity and the Margin of Appreciation -- Strasbourg and Europe -- 7. Does the Separation of Powers Still Work? -- Law and Rights -- 8. The Role of the Judge -- Independence and Dicey -- The separation of powers -- Impartiality and independence -- Accountability -- Judges and the media -- Judicial immunity -- 9. Anonymity and the Right to Lie -- Trolling -- Lying -- Anonymity -- Sources -- Legal controls -- Secret ballots -- 10. Dealing with Strasbourg -- 11. Speaking in Tongues -- A problem -- A solution -- 12. The Public Interest -- Relator actions -- 13. Judicial Misconduct -- 14. Recusal: When Should a Judge Not Be a Judge? -- Mr Dimes and Lord Cottenham -- General Pinochet and Lord Hoffmann -- Affinity and the reasonable observer -- Dealing with contempt -- Lay tribunals -- 15. The Right to Die -- 16. The Brexit Case -- 17. The Supreme Court -- 18. Arbitration -- 19. Detention without Trial -- 20. Originalism -- 21. Colonels in Horsehair -- 22. The British Constitution -- 23. A New Constitution? -- 24. Freedom of Expression -- 25. The Abuse of Power -- The abuse of parliamentary power -- The royal prerogative -- 26. A Compensation Culture? -- People -- 27. Rudy Narayan -- 28. John Warr

Francis Bacon wrote in 1625 that judges must be lions, but lions under the throne. From that day to this, the tension within the state between parliamentary, judicial and executive power has remained unresolved. Lions under the Throne is the first systematic account of the origins and development of the great body of public law by which the state, both institutionally and in relation to the individual, is governed

In anticipation of the United Kingdom's patriation of the European Convention on Human Rights, the author explores the possible impact that a Bill of Rights will have on the U.K. system of justice from a European and U.K. perspective. The author argues that, from a European perspective, the U.K. has an established history of yielding to supra-national law given its membership in the European Union. However, from a U.K. perspective, this will present new challenges, as the constitutionality of domestic legislation is subject to increased judicial scrutiny in ensuring conformance with European Convention obligations. The author argues that the pressures on Parliament to remedy domestic legislation as a result of decisions made by foreign judges on the European Court of Human Rights will be a particularly challenging adjustment. He concludes that, while there are lessons to be learned from other countries with bills of rights, the traditional reluctance among U.K. judges to override the will of Parliament will render the impact of such a document unpredictable.

Access to justice : the view from the law society / Andrew Caplen -- The meaning of access to justice / Tom Cornford -- Principles of access : comparing health and legal services / Albert Weale -- Europe to the rescue? EU law, the ECHR and legal aid / Steve Peers -- Access to justice in administrative law and administrative justice / Tom Mullen -- Immigration and access to justice : a critical analysis of recent restrictions / Robert Thomas -- The impact of austerity and structural reforms on the accessibility of tribunal justice / Stewart Wright -- Thirteen years of advice delivery in Islington : a case study / Lorna Reid -- Complexity, housing, and access to justice / Andrew Brookes and Caroline Hunter -- Access to justice in the Employment Tribunal : private disputes or public concerns? / Nicole Busby and Morag McDermont -- Renegotiating family justice / Mavis Maclean CBE -- Access to justice for young people : beyond the policies and politics of austerity / James Kenrick and Ellie Palmer -- A revolution in "lawyering"? : implications for welfare law of alternative business structures / Frank H Stephen -- CourtNav and pro bono in an age of austerity / Paul Yates -- The French approach to access to justice / Audrey Guinchard and Simon Wesley -- How Scotland has approached the challenge of austerity / Sarah O'Neill