The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial

The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial

Author: John H. Langbein

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0199258880

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The lawyer-dominated adversary system of criminal trial, which now typifies practice in Anglo-American legal systems, was developed in England in the 18th century. This text shows how and why lawyers were able to capture the trial.


Judge Without Jury

Judge Without Jury

Author: John Jackson

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780198258896

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Cases connected with the troubles in Northern Ireland have been tried by a judge sitting without a jury in `Diplock Courts'. Given the symbolic importance of the jury within the common law tradition, this study offers the first systematic comparison of the process of trial by judge alone withthat of trial by jury. The authors determine the impact of the replacement of jury trial with trial by a professional judge on the adversarial character of the criminal trial process.


History of the Common Law

History of the Common Law

Author: John H. Langbein

Publisher: Aspen Publishers

Published: 2009-08-14

Total Pages: 1194

ISBN-13:

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This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to distinguish it from European legal systems. The book contains both text and extracts from historical sources and literature. The book is published in color, and contains over 250 illustrations, many in color, including medieval illuminated manuscripts, paintings, books and manuscripts, caricatures, and photographs.


Advocacy and the Making of the Adversarial Criminal Trial, 1800-1865

Advocacy and the Making of the Adversarial Criminal Trial, 1800-1865

Author: David John Adams Cairns

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9780198262848

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During the first half of the 19th century, the criminal trial changed beyond recognition to attain its modern adversarial form. This book discusses the dynamics of this transformation and, in particular, the role of the Prisoners' Counsel Act 1836.


Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781590318737

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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.


Fighting for Justice

Fighting for Justice

Author: John Hostettler

Publisher: Waterside Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1904380298

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Adversary trial emerged in England only in the 18th century. This book focuses on the birth and meaning of adversary trial and also on the historic central role of the lawyer and advocate Sir William Garrow.


The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination

The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination

Author: R. H. Helmholz

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1997-06-08

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780226326603

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Levy, this history of the privilege shows that it played a limited role in protecting criminal defendants before the nineteenth century.


A World View of Criminal Justice

A World View of Criminal Justice

Author: Richard Vogler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 135196139X

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Criminal justice procedure is the bedrock of human rights. Surprisingly, however, in an era of unprecedented change in criminal justice around the world, it is often dismissed as technical and unimportant. This failure to take procedure seriously has a terrible cost, allowing reform to be driven by purely pragmatic considerations, cost-cutting or foreign influence. Current US political domination, for example, has produced a historic and global shift towards more adversarial procedure, which is widely misunderstood and inconsistently implemented. This book addresses such issues by bringing together a huge range of historical and contemporary research on criminal justice in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas. It proposes a theory of procedure derived from the three great international trial modes of 'inquisitorial justice', 'adversarial justice' and 'popular justice'. This approach opens up the possibility of assessing criminal justice from a more objective standpoint, as well as providing a sourcebook for comparative study and practical reform around the world.