Speaking in Court Developments in Court Advocacy from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century /

• Main Author: Watson, Andrew (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Trials.; Criminal justice, Administration of.; Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Human rights.; Criminology.; Law-History.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Juries and Criminal Trials.; Criminal Justice.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Human Rights and Crime .; Legal History.; Crime and Society.

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries. Advocacy, the means by which a barrister puts their client's case to the court and jury, has grown piecemeal and at an uneven pace; the result of a complex interplay of many influences. Andrew Watso...