LEADER 05384nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910778496603321 005 20231003202529.0 010 $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$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFamous cases $enine trials that changed the law /$fBrian P. Block, John Hostettler 210 1$aWinchester :$cWaterside Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (136 pages) 311 0 $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""; ""Divisional Court hearing""; ""First House of Lords appeal""; ""The problem""; ""The petition""; ""Second House of Lords appeal""; ""Historic decision""; ""Index""; ""Back cover "" 330 $aEvery lawyer knows of Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions, the ruling which established the 'golden thread of English law' whereby the burden of proof lies with the prosecutor in a criminal trial, even in the case of murder. But who was 'Woolmington' and how many people know that he escaped the death penalty at the eleventh hour, or that he was twice tried for murder? 'Lords give man back his life' as the Western Gazette put it. Likewise, in the civil law, how and why did a Mrs. Donoghue come to be drinking a bottle of ginger beer containing the remnants of a snail, an event which would ultimately determine - at the highest level - that 'the categories of negligence are never closed'? And how did the tranquil market town of Wednesbury come to be legal shorthand for 'unreasonableness'. In Famous Cases: Nine Trials that Changed the Law the authors have painstakingly assembled the background to a selection of leading cases in English law. From the Mareva case (synonymous with a type of injunction) to Lord Denning's classic ruling in the High Trees House case (the turning point for equitable estoppel) to that of the former Chilean head of state General Pinochet (in which the House of Lords heard the facts a second time) the authors offer a refreshing perspective to whet the appetite of every law student, general reader or seasoned practitioner interested in how English law evolves. The book has an authoritative introduction describing 'The Origins of the Common Law' and is enhanced by key extracts from the law reports reproduced courtesy of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales and the Butterworths Division of Reed Elsevier (UK) Ltd - making it not just an absorbing read but an important work of reference for every legal library and collection. 606 $aTrials$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aLaw$vAnecdotes 615 0$aTrials$xHistory. 615 0$aLaw 676 $a347.4207 700 $aBlock$b Brian P$01529283 701 $aHostettler$b John$01476122 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778496603321 996 $aFamous cases$93773412 997 $aUNINA