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Imperial Justice explores the imperial control of judicial governance and the adjudication of colonial difference in British Africa. Focusing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the colonial regional Appeal Courts for West Africa and East Africa, it examines how judicial discourses of native difference and imperial universalism in local disputes influenced practices of power in colonial settings and shaped an evolving jurisprudence of Empire. Arguing that the Imperial Appeal Courts were key sites where colonial legal modernity was fashioned, the book examines the tensions that p

Appellate courts --- History. --- Great Britain. --- West African Court of Appeal --- Courts of appeals --- Supreme courts --- Courts --- Appellate procedure --- Courts of last resort --- East African Court of Appeal --- H.M. Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa --- Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa --- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Great Britain) --- Court of Appeals from the Plantations (Great Britain) --- JCPC --- Caribbean Court of Justice