Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Civil Procedure

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...

In recent decades, courts have turned increasingly to mental health professionals to assist them in evaluating the many factors that are relevant to laws concerning the care and protection of children and termination of parental rights. At the same time, the legal system has challenged the role of experts by setting high admissibility standards for scientific integrity and objectivity in forensic consultation and assessment practice. The purpose of this book is to lay the foundation for solid conceptual and methodological approaches for mental health professionals in offering effective...

For lawyers and lawmen alike, this book introduces ten well-known lawyers who reveal the scholarship, sleuthwork, and aggressiveness that their profession demands.

This book includes eight essays which help give the reader an understanding of the legal framework of American collective bargaining. It demonstrates how and why collective bargaining has become the basic and accepted procedure in the settlement of disputes between labor and management.

A series of five lectures presenting a summary of critical problems in the development of the national labor policy, delivered by the author, at the University of California, Los Angeles in November and December of 1959, under the auspices of the Institute of Industrial Relations.