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Policing and prosecution in Britain 1750-1850
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ISBN: 0198229992 9780198229995 Year: 1989 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon,


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The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial
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ISBN: 0191718130 019102449X 9780191718137 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The adversary system of trial, the defining feature of the Anglo-American legal procedure, developed late in English legal history. For centuries defendants were forbidden to have legal counsel, and lawyers seldom appeared for the prosecution either. Trial was meant to be an occasion for the defendant to answer the charges in person.The transformation from lawyer-free to lawyer-dominated criminal trial happened within the space of about a century, from the 1690's to the 1780's. This book explains how the lawyers captured the trial. In addition to conventional legal sources, Professor Langbein

The case for the prosecution
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ISBN: 0415055776 9780415055772 Year: 1991 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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