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