Dearest Birth Right of the People of England

The Jury in the History of the Common Law

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

While much fundamental research in the recent past has been devoted to the criminal jury in England to 1800,there has been little work on the nineteenth century, and on the civil jury . This important study fills these obvious gaps in the literature. It also provides a re-assessment of standard issues such as jury lenity or equity, while raising questions about orthodoxies concerning the relationship of the jury to the development of laws of evidence. Moreover, re-assessment of the jury in nineteenth-century England rejects the thesis that juries were squeezed out by judges in favour of market principles. The book contributes a rounded picture of the jury as an institution, considering it in comparison to other modes of fact-finding, its development in both civil and criminal cases, and the significance, both practical and ideological, of its transplantation to North America and Scotland, while opening up new areas of investigation and research. Contributors: John W Cairns Richard D Friedman Joshua Getzler Roger D Groot Philip Handler Daffydd Jenkins Michael Lobban Grant McLeod Maureen Mulholland James C Oldham J R Pole David J Seipp

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-08-12
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:554 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781841133256

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Juridisk kompetens och praktik inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

John W. Cairns is Professor of Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. Grant McLeod is a former Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Recensioner i media

This volume of eleven essays is an indispensable addition to the growing collection of work on the history of the jury. Spanning a thousand years of jury development, the book's chapters offer an array of new insights and discoveries by leading scholars of jury history. Nancy J. King Canadian Journal of Law and Society February 2004

Innehållsförteckning

"The dearest birthright of the people of England" - the civil jury in modern Scottish legal history, John W. Cairns; towards the jury in Medieval Wales, Dafydd Jenkins; petit larceny, jury lenity and parliament, Roger D. Groot; the jury in English manorial courts, Maureen Mulholland; jurors, evidences and the tempest of 1499, David J. Seipp; no link - the jury and the origins of the confrontation right and the Hearsay Rule, Richard D. Friedman; "a quest of thoughts" - representation and the moral agency in the early Anglo-American jury, J.R. Pole; jury research in the English reports in CD-ROM, James Oldham; the limits of discretion - forgery and the jury at the Old Bailey, 1818-21, Philip Handler; the strange life of the English civil jury, 1837-1914, Michael Lobban; the fate of the civil jury in late Victorian England - malicious prosecution as a test case, Joshua Getzler.