Books, Law, English Law, Courts & Procedures

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John O. Sonsteng, Roger S. Haydock, James T. Boyd
Trialbook: A Total System for the Preparation and Presentation of a Case (Hornbook Series)
by West Publishing Company (Paperback)

Designed as a trial advocacy text and a resource manual of trial theories and techniques. Offers a thorough approach to the preparation and presentation of a case for trial. Each facet of a trial is systematically discussed and analyzed. Offers the benefit of years of litigation experience. Tactics, ideas, approaches, concepts, strategies, and considerations are presented in a systematic format for use in all civil and criminal, jury and court trials. Provides a structure and analytical approach to trial advocacy to increase understanding and improve trial performance. Each major facet of a trial appears in a separate chapter.

Herbert Jacob, Erhard Blankenburg, Herbert M. Kritzer, Doris Marie Provine, ...
Courts, Law, and Politics in Comparative Perspective
by Yale University Press (Paperback)

Comparing the intersection of political forces and legal practices in the US, England, France, Germany and Japan, this work investigates the functioning of constitutional courts in each country, and how ordinary citizens and large corporations use the courts.

Charles R. Epp
The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective
by University Of Chicago Press (Hardcover)

It is well known that the scope of individual rights has expanded dramatically in the United States over the last half-century. Less well known is that other countries have experienced "rights revolutions" as well. Charles R. Epp argues that, far from being the fruit of an activist judiciary, the ascendancy of civil rights and liberties has rested on the democratization of access to the courts—the influence of advocacy groups, the establishment of governmental enforcement agencies, the growth of financial and legal resources for ordinary citizens, and the strategic planning of grass roots organizations. In other words, the shift in the rights of individuals is best understood as a "bottom up," rather than a "top down," phenomenon.The Rights Revolution is the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the growth of civil rights, examining the high courts of the United States, Britain, Canada, and India within their specific constitutional and cultural contexts. It ...

Norval Morris
Maconochie's Gentlemen: The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
by Oxford University Press, USA (Paperback)

In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements in history into a controlled, stable, and productive environment that achieved such success that upon release his prisoners came to be called "Maconochie's Gentlemen". Here Norval Morris, one of our most renowned criminologists, offers a highly inventive and engaging account of this early pioneer in penal reform, enhancing Maconochie's life story with a trenchant policy twist. Maconochie's life and efforts on Norfolk Island, Morris shows, provide a model with profound relevance to the running of correctional institutions today. Using a unique combination of fictionalized history and critical commentary, Morris gives this work a powerful policy impact lacking in most ...

John H. Langbein
The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History)
by Oxford University Press, USA (Hardcover)

The adversary system of trial, the defining feature of the Anglo-American criminal procedure developed late in English legal history. For centuries, defendants were forbidden to have counsel, and lawyers seldom appeared for the prosecution either. Trial was meant to be an occasion for the defendant to answer the charges in person. The transformation from lawyer-free to lawyer-dominated criminal trial happened within the space of about a century, from the 1690s to the 1780s. This book explains how the lawyers captured the trial. In addition to conventional legal sources, Professor Langbein draws upon a rich vein of contemporary pamphlet accounts about trials in London's Old Bailey. The book also mines these novel sources to provide the first detailed account of the formation of the law of criminal evidence. Responding to menacing prosecutorial initiatives (including reward-seeking thieftakers amd crown witnesses induced to testify in order to save their own necks), the judges of ...

Fiona Cownie
The English Legal System in Context
by Lexis Law Publishing (Va) (Paperback)

This text draws attention to the fundamental issues which underlie the detail of English law and makes use of contextual material to give students a variety of view points on the same problem.

Statistical Science in the Courtroom
by Springer (Hardcover)

Expert testimony relying on scientific and other specialized evidence has come under increased scrutiny by the legal system. A trilogy of recent U.S. Supreme Court cases has assigned judges the task of assessing the relevance and reliability of proposed expert testimony. In conjunction with the Federal judiciary, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has initiated a project to provide judges indicating a need with their own expert. This concern with the proper interpretation of scientific evidence, especially that of a probabilistic nature, has also occurred in England, Australia and in several European countries. Statistical Science in the Courtroom is a collection of articles written by statisticians and legal scholars who have been concerned with problems arising in the use of statistical evidence. A number of articles describe DNA evidence and the difficulties of properly calculating the probability that a random individual's profile would "match" that of ...

Gary Slapper
English Legal System (Medicolegal Series)
by Cavendish Publishing (UK) (Hardcover)

Suitable for undergraduate, CPE and vocational courses, the Questions and Answers series gives knowledge on how examiners would answer exam questions. Each book contains 50 questions on topics commonly found on exam papers, with emphasis on a logical approach to answering, stressing not only the content but also the form. The books are organized by topic, with the introduction to each chapter outlining the main points of knowledge needed before the questions in that chapter can be answered. This work aims to help students studying the English legal system. It covers the subject in detail and offers helpful revision sections.

Kate Malleson
The Legal System (Core Texts S.)
by Oxford University Press, USA (Paperback)

The Legal System provides a concise and up-to-date review of the institutions, personnel and procedures that make up the legal system in England and Wales. Current changes are explained and critically evaluated. Using practical examples, the book analyses recent and ongoing developments by identifying a number of key themes and tensions underlying the legal system today.

David Downes, Paul Rock
Understanding Deviance
by Oxford University Press, USA (Paperback)

This popular textbook provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms that have been voiced against them, and constructing defences where appropriate. The book has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date to include new issues of crime, deviance and theory in the early twenty-first century, and includes summaries of cultural criminology and new assessments of the contribution made by Gottfredson and Hirschi to control theory.

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