Famous cases : nine trials that changed the law /

Every lawyer knows of Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions, the ruling which established the 'golden thread of English law' whereby the burden of proof lies with the prosecutor in a criminal trial, even in the case of murder. But who was 'Woolmington' and how many peopl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Block, Brian P.
Otros Autores: Hostettler, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Winchester : Waterside Press, 2002.
Temas:
Trials > Great Britain > History.
Procès > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
Trials
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Acknowledgement
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • List of Cases
  • PART I: Introduction
  • 1 Origin and Growth of the Common Law
  • Unwritten law
  • Early laws
  • The lawyer king
  • Rise of the legal profession
  • Precedent
  • Court of Chancery
  • Discord
  • The Star Chamber
  • The High Commission
  • Trial by jury
  • Statutes
  • PART II Criminal Trials
  • 2 George Joseph Smith and the Brides in the Bath
  • MAKIN'S CASE
  • The Privy Council hearing
  • SMITH'S CASE
  • The facts
  • The appeal
  • Aftermath
  • Straffen
  • Pragmatic approachA new precedent
  • 3 Woolmington's Case
  • Presumption of guilt
  • The facts
  • The first trial
  • The second trial
  • The first appeal
  • Woolmington v. DPP
  • No presumption of murder
  • The beyond reasonable doubt principle
  • Aftermath of Woolmington
  • 4 Gypsy Jim Smith
  • The case
  • Malice aforethought
  • DPP v. Smith
  • Aftermath
  • PART III Civil Cases
  • 5 Donoghue v. Stevenson
  • The claim
  • Judgments
  • The neighbour rule
  • Explosive effects
  • 6 Lord Denning's High Trees Case
  • The Facts
  • Legal argumentThe judgment
  • 7 Rookes v. Barnard
  • The facts
  • The case
  • The first appeal
  • The House of Lords
  • 8 The Mareva Injunction
  • Nippon Yusen Kaisha v Karageorgis
  • Mareva Compania Naviera SA v International Bulkcarriers SA
  • Law reform
  • 9 Wednesbury Unreasonableness
  • Associated Provincial Picture Houses, Ltd v. Wednesbury Corporation
  • The appeal
  • What the case settled
  • PART IV International Law
  • 10 The Trials of Augusto Pinochet
  • The legal background
  • Background to the Pinochet case
  • The arrests
  • Divisional Court hearingFirst House of Lords appeal
  • The problem
  • The petition
  • Second House of Lords appeal
  • Historic decision
  • Index
  • Back cover

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