1 option
Summary justice : judges address juries / Paul Robertshaw.
LIBRA KD8402 .R63 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robertshaw, Paul, 1939-
- Series:
- Open linguistics series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jury instructions--Great Britain.
- Jury instructions.
- Summation (Law)--Great Britain.
- Summation (Law).
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 210 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Washington, DC : Cassell, 1998.
- Summary:
- 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 unrecognized advocacy - and examines alternatives, such as the North American and Scottish minimalist legal model, and a reformed summing up of patterned structure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [194]-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0304337013
- OCLC:
- 37310799
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.