Advocacy and the Making of the Adversarial Criminal Trial, 1800-1865

Author: David J. A. Cairns
Published: November 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198262841
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 230

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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.

Table of Contents
General Editor's Preface
Author's Preface
Table of Trials
1 The Context of Upheaval 1
2 The Early Nineteenth Century Trial 25
3 The Logic of Reform 56
4 Full Defence by Counsel 67
5 The Complexities of Defence Inequality 98
6 The Limits of Adversarialism 126
7 The Adversarial Criminal Trial 163
Appendix 1 Legislation 181
Appendix 2 Conviction Rates England and Wales 1805-1840 184
Appendix 3 The Defence Speech in R v Courvoisier 186
Bibliography 201
Index 211

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