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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Watson, Andrew (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Distinguished Advocates, Judges, Classical Learning and Other Influences On Advocacy in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
• 3. Prohibition Against Counsel in Felony Trials and the Consequences of its erosion
• 4. Victorian Advocacy: Emotion, Melodrama, Floridity and Juries
• 5. Signs of Change in Styles Before Juries
• 6. Decline of Jury Trials in the Civil and Criminal Courts and Other Key Developments
• 7. The Late Nineteenth Century and the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
• 8. A Spectacular Quartet of Leading Barristers
• 9. The Silent Revolution in Methods of Advocacy
• 10. Changes and Influences on Jury advocacy in England and Wales During the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
• 11. Developments in the Second Half of the 20th Century Influencing Advocacy in the Civil Courts
• 12. Some Conclusions.