Fighting for Justice: The History and Origins of Adversary TrialAdversary trial emerged in England only in the 18th century. Its origins and significance have tended to go unrecognised by judges, lawyers, jurists and researchers until relatively modern times when conflict has become a key social issue. |
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... Lord Halsbury. He has written widely for the legal press, including as a regular contributor to the leading UK weekly journal Justice of the Peace. A former magistrate himself, he played a leading role in the abolition of flogging in ...
... Lord Halsbury. He has written widely for the legal press, including as a regular contributor to the leading UK weekly journal Justice of the Peace. A former magistrate himself, he played a leading role in the abolition of flogging in ...
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... Lord Halsbury (1998) Barry Rose The Red Gown: The Life and Works of Sir Matthew Hale (2002) Barry Rose Law and Terror in Stalin's Russia (2003) Barry Rose The Criminal Jury Old and New: Jury Power from Early Times to the Present Day ...
... Lord Halsbury (1998) Barry Rose The Red Gown: The Life and Works of Sir Matthew Hale (2002) Barry Rose Law and Terror in Stalin's Russia (2003) Barry Rose The Criminal Jury Old and New: Jury Power from Early Times to the Present Day ...
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... Lord John Russell was Home Secretary three years after the Great Reform Act of 1832, he sought the support of the criminal law commissioners, who had been appointed by Lord Chancellor Brougham in 1833 to codify the criminal law, by ...
... Lord John Russell was Home Secretary three years after the Great Reform Act of 1832, he sought the support of the criminal law commissioners, who had been appointed by Lord Chancellor Brougham in 1833 to codify the criminal law, by ...
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... Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys told Thomas Rosewall on a charge of high treason in 1684, I think it is a hard case that a man should have counsel to defend himself for a twopenny-trespass, and his witnesses examined on oath; but if he ...
... Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys told Thomas Rosewall on a charge of high treason in 1684, I think it is a hard case that a man should have counsel to defend himself for a twopenny-trespass, and his witnesses examined on oath; but if he ...
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... Lord Chancellor and grandfather of the poet, William Cowper. At the conclusion of what had been a long trial, at a time when felony trials could not be adjourned, the judge was so fatigued as to be incapable of properly summing up the ...
... Lord Chancellor and grandfather of the poet, William Cowper. At the conclusion of what had been a long trial, at a time when felony trials could not be adjourned, the judge was so fatigued as to be incapable of properly summing up the ...
Contents
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4 Rights of the Individual | 50 |
5 Sir William Garrow | 59 |
6 Garrow at the Old Bailey 1 | 77 |
7 Garrow at the Old Bailey 2 | 96 |
8 Rules of Criminal Evidence | 116 |
10 Conclusion | 149 |
Glossary 1 Judicial and Historical Terms | 162 |
Glossary 2 Crimes Tried Frequently at the Old Bailey | 165 |
Bibliography | 167 |
Appendix | 172 |
Index | 174 |
Back cover
| 177 |
9 Counsel Finally Address the Jury | 135 |
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