Advocacy and the making of the adversarial criminal trial, 1800-1865 / David J.A. Cairns.
"The modern adversarial criminal trial emerged from the punitive and procedural upheaval in the criminal law of the first half of the nineteenth century. This is the first scholarly work to analyse the practice of advocacy and to identify its significance for the administration of justice. The...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in modern legal history.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "The modern adversarial criminal trial emerged from the punitive and procedural upheaval in the criminal law of the first half of the nineteenth century. This is the first scholarly work to analyse the practice of advocacy and to identify its significance for the administration of justice. The topics discussed include the increasing sophistication of prosecution and defence advocacy, the beginnings of modern professional ethics and the conscious rationalisation of adversary procedure as the best means to discover the truth."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 215 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198262841 9780198262848 |