Reforming Justice
A Journey to Fairness in Asia

Livingston Armytage explores how justice reform can be made more effective.

Livingston Armytage (Author)

9781107013827, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 May 2012

382 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.73 kg

'A valuable read for anyone who is interested in social justice as an indelible part of human rights law.' Carolina Saez, Law Society Journal

Despite the disappointing results of fifty years of judicial reform, evidence from Asia suggests that a shift in justice reform efforts could result in important progress being made. Livingston Armytage argues that reform should focus on promoting fairness and equity, as opposed to economic growth and good governance. Justice is constitutive to human wellbeing and cannot be trumped by economics. Finding a balance between utility and aggregate wellbeing on the one hand and equity and individual wellbeing on the other is at the crux of this important book.

1. Introduction
Part I. Judicial Reform Enterprise: 2. History and context
3. Nature of reforms and critique
4. Theories of reform
5. Empirical evidence
Part II. Evaluation: 6. Development evaluation
7. Evaluating judicial reform
Part III. Case Studies of the Asian Reform Experience: 8. ADB's judicial reform experience in Asia: 1990–2007
9. AUSAID'S program in Papua New Guinea: 2003–7
10. Voices of the Asian Pacific experience
11. Conclusions
Annex A. Frameworks of measurement
Annex B. Empirical methodology and justification
Annex C. AUSAID inventory of documents
Annex D. Sample extracts of PNG newspapers: 2003–4.

Subject Areas: International human rights law [LBBR], Public international law [LBB], Law [L], Human rights [JPVH]