Summary justice : judges address juries / / Paul Robertshaw
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| Autore: |
Robertshaw Paul <1939->
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| Titolo: |
Summary justice : judges address juries / / Paul Robertshaw
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Washington, DC, : Cassell, 1998 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 210 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 347.42/075 |
| Soggetto topico: | Instructions to juries - Great Britain |
| Summation (Law) - Great Britain | |
| Criminal justice, Administration of - Great Britain | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Summary justice |
| ISBN: | 1-281-29129-3 |
| 9786611291297 | |
| 1-84714-085-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813614203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Open linguistics series.