1. Introduction part I
2. Introduction part II
3. "As a system.the common law is a thing merely imaginary"
4. Recording law's experience : features of the "case"
5. The postcolonial, the visible and the invisible : the normal and the exceptional
6. Institutionalising judicial decision making : public reason and the doctrine of precedent
7. What we talk about when we talk about common law : the practice of precedent
8. The mirror and the dialogue : the common law, Strasbourg and human rights
9. The judicial practice of statutory interpretation
10. The politics of the judiciary revisited : rights, democracy, law
11. Judges and democracy
12. The integrity of the court : judgment and the prohibition on bias
13. The value of participation : the rights of the defence, equality of arms and access to justice
14. Open justice, closed procedures and torture evidence
15. Imagining civil justice
16. Imagining criminal justice
17. Conclusion.