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Garrow's law : the BBC drama revisited / John Hostettler.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hostettler, John, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Garrow, William, Sir, 1760-1840.
Garrow, William.
Garrow's law (Television program).
Historical television programs--Great Britain--History and criticism.
Historical television programs.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (135 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Hook, Hampshire, England : Waterside Press, 2012.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
For any of the five million people who saw the prime-time BBC series "Garrow's Law" this is an absorbing book. It is written by expert commentator John Hostettler who has studied Garrow extensively. The book uses the facts on which the programme was based to compare drama and reality.
Contents:
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Preface
Crime and Law in the 18th Century
Garrow's Gift to the World
Airbrushed Out of History
Background to the TV Series
The Rights of Defendants
"Old Bailey Hacks"
Adversary Trial
The "No-Counsel" Rule
The Lawyers Capture the Courtroom
Rules of Criminal Evidence
Eighteenth Century London Life
Teeming Population
Absence of a Police Force
Felonies
The Old Bailey
Benefit of Clergy
Coachmaker's Hall
Advocate
Reality and Dramatic Invention
"Garrow's Law"
BBC1
TV Series 1
Garrow's First Case
Infanticide
Duelling
"Sweepings"
London's Monster
Lady Sarah Dore
A Case of Rape
Thief-takers
High Treason
Garrow and Erskine
TV Series 2
Amicus Curiae
The Zong Slave Ship
Sodomy
The Seamen's Hospital Case
Erskine's Guinea
Injustice for Children
Criminal Conversation
TV Series 3
The Deranged Soldier
Pious Perjury
Pro Bono Publico Work ("Work for the Public Good")
Dispute with the Bench
Torture in Trinidad - The Picton Trial
Moral Issue of Slavery
Death on the Hustings
Afterword
Coal Face of Legal History
Judicial and Historical Terms in use in Garrow's Time
Capital Offences Tried Frequently at the Old Bailey in Garrow's Time
A Bibliogaphy F
Index
The Garrow Society
Sir William Garrow: His Life, Times and Fight for Justice
Back cover.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-908162-23-6
OCLC:
844430907

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