Summary justice : judges address juries / Paul Robertshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertshaw, Paul, 1939-

Series:

Open linguistics 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Washington, DC : Cassell, 1998.

Language Note:

English

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 unreco

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-196) and index.

ISBN:

9786611291297

9781281291295

1281291293

9781847140852

1847140858

OCLC:

270933617