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The Golden Age of Arbitration: Dispute Resolution Under Elizabeth I
Derek Roebuck
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Hardcover. Elizabeth I consciously and determinedly provided a Government mediation and arbitration scheme. A wealth of primary sources show that she had a special concern for women, the poor and anyone disadvantaged by the costs and delays of the law. Her Privy Council arranged arbitrations with no fees and with free legal aid for those who needed it. Num Pages: 365 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 32. Weight in Grams: 604.
Elizabeth I consciously and determinedly provided a Government mediation and arbitration scheme. A wealth of primary sources show that she had a special concern for women, the poor and anyone disadvantaged by the costs and delays of the law. Her Privy Council arranged arbitrations with no fees and with free legal aid for those who needed it. The archives are voluminous, not only in the Acts of the Privy Council but in the National Archives and local collections. Her arbitration scheme dominates this book, but the background was private arbitration, arranged by the parties. In Elizabethan England arbitration was the ordinary way to settle a dispute the parties could not end themselves. Each side chose one or more arbitrators and that even number would try to mediate a settlement. If they failed, they would at least try to get the parties to agree on whom they would appoint to decide for them. The arbitrators include well-known personalities: Cecil and Walsingham, Raleigh and Hawkins, Coke and Bacon. Women are shown participating at all levels, as claimants and defendants, in matters of title to land, commerce and all kinds of family squabbles. They could even act as arbitrator or mediator. Elizabeth I herself did both. Many of the disputes were between foreign merchants and some were submitted to their arbitration. What law there was on arbitration, as the courts developed it over the 45 years of the reign, had little impact on practice. But the most important revelation is the Queen's concern for the poor: 'If the phrases "legal aid" and even "welfare state" had been coined by then, it may be unwise to assume that Elizabeth I's Government would have used them as terms of abuse.'
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Holo Books The Arbitration Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
365
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780957215306
SKU
V9780957215306
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About Derek Roebuck
Derek Roebuck is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at London University's Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. His researches into the history of arbitration, Ancient Greek Arbitration, Roman Arbitration (with Bruno de Loynes de Fumichon), Early English Arbitration and Mediation and Arbitration in the Middle Ages were published by HOLO Books in 2001, 2004, 2008 and 2013.
Reviews for The Golden Age of Arbitration: Dispute Resolution Under Elizabeth I
'Roebuck's method is an engaging series of polymathic raids into the territory of geographers, ethnographers, linguists, lawyers, historians and archaeologists.' (Sir Stephen Sedley London Review of Books) 'The journey through this history is vividly painted... inspiring and engaging... a thorough yet interesting insight into the development of dispute resolution.' (Gary B Born Kluwer Practice Source)