Domestic and international trials, 1700-2000 / edited by R. A. Melikan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melikan, R. A.

Series:

Trial in history ; v. 2.

The Trial in history ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice, Administration of--England--History.

Justice, Administration of.

Trials--England.

Trials.

Trials--Europe.

War crime trials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations, charts

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Focusing both on English criminal, military, and parliamentary trials, and upon national and international trials for war crimes, this book illuminates the diverse forces that have shaped trials during the modern era.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

List of legal abbreviations

Introduction R. A. Melikan

1 Evidence law and the evidentiary objection: a view from the British Trials collection T. P. Gallanis

2 Sense and sensibility: fateful splitting in the Victorian insanity trial Joel Peter Eigen

3 Trials of character: the use of character evidence in Victorian sodomy trials H. G. Cocks

4 Pains and penalties procedure: how the House of Lords 'tried' Queen Caroline R. A. Melikan

5 The invention of trials in camera in security cases A. W. Brian Simpson

6 War crimes trials before international tribunals: legality and legitimacy Dominic McGoldrick

7 An embarrassing necessity: the Tokyo trial of Japanese leaders, 1946-48 Peter Lowe

8 The trial of Maurice Papon for crimes against humanity and the concept of bureaucratic crime Robert Boyce

9 The trial of Slobodan Milosevic: a twenty-first century trial? Dominic McGoldrick

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-73445-0

9786610734450

1-84779-023-2

1-4175-7600-6

OCLC:

299059467