1. Legal language and Summing-up to juries. Legal linguistics and structuralist rhetoric. Rhetoric and law. Situational and pragmatic features of the Summing-up: 'The jury in the trial' -- 2. The law of Summing-up. England and Wales. Scotland. 'Unfairness' -- 3. An aspect of Pathos. Naming and credibility --4. The data. Selecting cases for study: a note on method -- 5. The cases. 'The Philanderer' - acquittal of obscenity. Two doctors are acquitted. Two Serious Fraud Office trials. Two policemen on trial. Rape: three acquittals and three convictions. Two assault convictions -- 6. Three alternative models. Jury instruction - the USA states' model. Canadian 'Charges to the jury'. Scotland - two convictions and their judges' Charges -- 7. Modest proposals
