Summary justice : judges address juries /
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 libert...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Washington, DC :
Cassell,
1998.
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| Series: | Open linguistics series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 210 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1847140858 9781847140852 1281291293 9781281291295 9786611291297 6611291296 |
