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

ISBN-13: 9780198262848 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 230 str.

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Opis

The modern adversarial criminal trial emerged from the punitive and procedural upheaval in the criminal law of the first half of the nineteenth century. This is the first scholarly work to analyse the practice of advocacy and to identify its significance for the administration of justice. The topics discussed include the increasing sophistication of prosecution and defence advocacy, the beginnings of modern professional ethics and the conscious rationalisation of adversary procedure as the best means to discover the truth.

Recenzje

excellent book ... David Cairns' study of the early nineteenth-century criminal trial makes compelling reading. It is a thorough and highly readable piece of scholarship which convincingly calls for a realignment of our perspective on the critical historical steps which led to the emergence of English criminal adversarial procedure.

O autorze

David Cairns is a New Zealand barrister. He studied at the universities of Auckland, Toronto and Cambridge.