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Terry J. Peterson, Law student Singer Hall, S10 G4, Coventry University, West Midlands CV1 5NR Tel: 07792 829 950 Constitutional Reform: Will the justice system benefit? The overriding aim of constitutional reform is justice for the wo/man on the street. Without access and representation in an adequate, transparent, impartial and politically insulated judiciary, individual access to justice may be denied. The civil justice system in the United Kingdom is based on the precedent of common law rather than the Code Napoleon of other European countries. The British constitution is unwritten and not entrenched. In many ways, this has made it extremely admirable and successful. "Hernando de Soto (1989) has commented on how the nature of private property had first been enunciated properly by the British, and how civil institutions were soon to follow." However, the current system has developed internal complexities and irregularities, which make it unintelligible, inaccessible and unrepresentative...

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