1. The Context of Upheaval -- 2. The Early Nineteenth Century Trial -- 3. The Logic of Reform -- 4. Full Defence by Counsel -- 5. The Complexities of Defence Inequality -- 6. The Limits of Adversarialism -- 7. The Adversarial Criminal Trial -- Appendix 1. Legislation -- Appendix 2. Conviction Rates England and Wales 1805-1840 -- Appendix 3. The Defence Speech in R v Courvoisier
Summary
This is the first scholarly work to analyse the practice of advocacy and to identify its significance for the administration of justice. It includes case studies of four major criminal trials which demonstrate the interrelationships between advocacy and procedure in the making of the adversarial criminal trial
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index
