LEADER 03648nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910454781703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-12446-X 010 $a9786611124465 010 $a1-906534-15-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000790127 035 $a(EBL)3416275 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000296148 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11223305 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296148 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10319931 035 $a(PQKB)10901315 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3416275 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3416275 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10696123 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL112446 035 $a(OCoLC)923509008 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000790127 100 $a20020822d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFamous cases$b[electronic resource] $enine trials that changed the law /$fBrian P. Block, John Hostettler 210 $aWinchester $cWaterside Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (136 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-872870-34-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Cover ""; ""Acknowledgement ""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Preface""; ""List of Cases""; ""PART I: Introduction""; ""1 Origin and Growth of the Common Law""; ""Unwritten law""; ""Early laws""; ""The lawyer king""; ""Rise of the legal profession""; ""Precedent""; ""Court of Chancery""; ""Discord""; ""The Star Chamber""; ""The High Commission""; ""Trial by jury""; ""Statutes""; ""PART II Criminal Trials""; ""2 George Joseph Smith and the ""Brides in the Bath""""; ""MAKIN'S CASE""; ""The Privy Council hearing""; ""SMITH'S CASE""; ""The facts""; ""The appeal""; ""Aftermath""; ""Straffen"" 327 $a""Pragmatic approach""""A new precedent""; ""3 Woolmington's Case""; ""Presumption of guilt""; ""The facts""; ""The first trial""; ""The second trial""; ""The first appeal""; ""Woolmington v. DPP ""; ""No presumption of murder""; ""The ""beyond reasonable doubt"" principle""; ""Aftermath of Woolmington""; ""4 Gypsy Jim Smith""; ""The case""; ""Malice aforethought""; ""DPP v. Smith""; ""Aftermath""; ""PART III Civil Cases""; ""5 Donoghue v. Stevenson""; ""The claim""; ""Judgments""; ""The ""neighbour"" rule""; ""Explosive effects""; ""6 Lord Denning's ""High Trees"" Case""; ""The Facts"" 327 $a""Legal argument""""The judgment""; ""7 Rookes v. Barnard""; ""The facts""; ""The case""; ""The first appeal""; ""The House of Lords""; ""8 The Mareva Injunction""; ""Nippon Yusen Kaisha v Karageorgis""; ""Mareva Compania Naviera SA v International Bulkcarriers SA""; ""Law reform ""; ""9 Wednesbury Unreasonableness""; ""Associated Provincial Picture Houses, Ltd v. Wednesbury Corporation""; ""The appeal ""; ""What the case settled""; ""PART IV International Law""; ""10 The Trials of Augusto Pinochet""; ""The legal background""; ""Background to the Pinochet case""; ""The arrests"" 327 $a""Divisional Court hearing""""First House of Lords appeal""; ""The problem""; ""The petition""; ""Second House of Lords appeal""; ""Historic decision""; ""Index""; ""Back cover "" 606 $aTrials$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aLaw$vAnecdotes 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTrials$xHistory. 615 0$aLaw 676 $a347.4207 700 $aBlock$b Brian P$0909799 701 $aHostettler$b John$0885968 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454781703321 996 $aFamous cases$92035918 997 $aUNINA