- 336 pages
- English
- PDF
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English Criminal Justice in the 19th Century
About this book
An account of the 19th-century criminal justice system as a whole, from the crimes committed and the classification of offences to the different courts and their procedure. The author describes the stages of criminal prosecution -- committal, indictment, trial, verdict and punishment -- and the judges, lawyers and juries, highlighting the significant changes in the rules of evidence during the century. He looks at reform of the old system and assesses how far it was brought about by lawyers themselves and how far by external forces. Finally, he considers the fairness of the system, both as seen by contemporaries and in modern times.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The System
- 2 Summary Trial
- 3 Committal for Trial
- 4 Preparing for Trial
- 5 Pre-Trial Publicity
- 6 The Court of Trial
- 7 Conditions at Trial
- 8 Judges
- 9 Officials
- 10 Trial Juries
- 11 Lawyers
- 12 Representation by Counsel
- 13 The Indictment
- 14 The Prosecution Case
- 15 The Prisoner's Incompetence to Testify
- 16 The Incompetency Rule: The First Reforms
- 17 The Campaign for a Prisoners' Evidence Act
- 18 Reform
- 19 The Rules of Criminal Evidence
- 20 Hearsay
- 21 Confessions and Police Interrogation
- 22 Character and Similar Fact Evidence
- 23 Corroboration and Identification
- 24 The Concluding Stages of the Trial
- 25 Appellate Remedies
- 26 Conclusion
- Table of Cases
- Index