Nbr. 1-2, January 2002

Index

• The case for a national court for indictable crime
• Journalists and judges: tension and distortion
• The culture of decision-making: a case for judicial defiance through evidence and fact-finding
• Homicide: the mental element
• Criticising judges in Ireland
• A new approach to civil litigation? The implementation of the 'woolf reforms' and judicial case management
• Racism and xenophobia: difficulties facing the courts in Ireland and Sweden in dealing with ethnic minorities
• Judicial review procedure under the planning and development act, 2000
• Book review: 'Mysteries and solutions in irish legal history' edited by D.S. Greer and N.M. Dawson (Four courts press)
• Disclosure of bench memoranda prepared by judicial assistants