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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813614203321

Autore

Robertshaw Paul <1939->

Titolo

Summary justice : judges address juries / / Paul Robertshaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Washington, DC, : Cassell, 1998

ISBN

1-281-29129-3

9786611291297

1-84714-085-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 210 pages)

Collana

Open linguistics series

Disciplina

347.42/075

Soggetti

Instructions to juries - Great Britain

Summation (Law) - Great Britain

Criminal justice, Administration of - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Legal language and Summing-up to juries; 2 The law of Summing-up; 3 An aspect of Pathos; 4 The data; 5 The cases; 6 Three alternative models; 7 Modest proposals; Bibliography; Table of cases; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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