Summary justice : judges address juries

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Label

Summary justice : judges address juries

Title remainder

judges address juries

Statement of responsibility

Paul Robertshaw

Creator

• Robertshaw, Paul, 1939-

Subject

• Bewijsrecht
• Criminal justice, Administration of
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain
• Droit pénal -- Grande-Bretagne
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Great Britain
• Jury instructions
• Jury instructions
• Jury instructions -- Great Britain
• Juryrechtspraak
• LAW -- Civil Procedure
• LAW -- Legal Services
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government | Judicial Branch
• Rechtstaal
• Regels
• Summation (Law)
• Summation (Law) -- Great Britain
• Anglais (langue) -- Langage juridique

Genre

• Electronic books
• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

This is a study of the practice of judicial summing-up to juries, and of the language of persuasion and rhetoric in the English criminal process. The book examines those statements normally occurring in criminal courts, but also in the High Court, in defamation trials and in ""civil liberty"" torts in the county courts. The text of these summaries can vary in length, and are significant in that they break the flow between advocates' turn-taking - especially their final speeches. In addition to its linguistic concerns, the book considers the practice of summing-up as a legal problem - as unreco

Member of

• Open linguistics series

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

347.42/075

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

KD8402

LC item number

.R63 1998eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Open linguistics series