The Trial On Trial

Author : Elaine Craig
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780773553019

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Putting Trials on Trial by Elaine Craig Pdf

Over the past few years, public attention focused on the Jian Ghomeshi trial, the failings of Judge Greg Lenehan in the Halifax taxi driver case, and the judicial disciplinary proceedings against former Justice Robin Camp have placed the sexual assault trial process under significant scrutiny. Less than one percent of the sexual assaults that occur each year in Canada result in legal sanction for those who commit these offences. Survivors often distrust and fear the criminal justice process, and as a result, over ninety percent of sexual assaults go unreported. Unfortunately, their fears are well founded. In this thorough evaluation of the legal culture and courtroom practices prevalent in sexual assault prosecutions, Elaine Craig provides an even-handed account of the ways in which the legal profession unnecessarily – and sometimes unlawfully – contributes to the trauma and re-victimization experienced by those who testify as sexual assault complainants. Gathering conclusive evidence from interviews with experienced lawyers across Canada, reported case law, lawyer memoirs, recent trial transcripts, and defence lawyers’ public statements and commercial advertisements, Putting Trials on Trial demonstrates that – despite prominent contestations – complainants are regularly subjected to abusive, humiliating, and discriminatory treatment when they turn to the law to respond to sexual violations. In pursuit of trial practices that are less harmful to sexual assault complainants as well as survivors of sexual violence more broadly, Putting Trials on Trial makes serious, substantiated, and necessary claims about the ethical and cultural failures of the Canadian legal profession.

Author : R A Duff
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781841134420

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The Trial on Trial: Volume 1 by R A Duff Pdf

This book is questions whether the discovery of truth is the central aim of the rules and practices of criminal investigation and trial.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1668714779

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MACK'S CRIMINAL LAW TRIAL BOOK. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sara Beam
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487587673

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Trial of Jeanne Catherine by Sara Beam Pdf

This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, including her own.

Author : R A Duff,Lindsay Farmer,Sandra Marshall,Victor Tadros
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847311634

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The Trial on Trial: Volume 2 by R A Duff,Lindsay Farmer,Sandra Marshall,Victor Tadros Pdf

What are the aims of a criminal trial? What social functions should it perform? And how is the trial as a political institution linked to other institutions in a democratic polity? What follows if we understand a criminal trial as calling a defendant to answer to a charge of criminal wrongdoing and, if he is judged to be responsible for such wrongdoing, to account for his conduct? A normative theory of the trial, an account of what trials ought to be and of what ends they should serve, must take these central aspects of the trial seriously; but they raise a number of difficult questions. They suggest that the trial should be seen as a communicative process: but what kinds of communication should it involve? What kind of political theory does a communicative conception of the trial require? Can trials ever actually amount to more than the imposition of state power on the defendant? What political role might trials play in conflicts that must deal not simply with issues of individual responsibility but with broader collective wrongs, including wrongs perpetrated by, or in the name of, the state? These are the issues addressed by the essays in this volume. The third volume in this series, in which the four editors of this volume develop their own normative account, will be published in 2007.

Author : Rosemarie Boll
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781926920146

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The Second Trial by Rosemarie Boll Pdf

What do you do when your father becomes the enemy of your family? Danny McMillan never knew that his father was abusing his mother, until a night of violence that shattered his family forever. Watching in the courtroom as his father is sentenced, Danny struggles with divided loyalties -- to his mother on one side and to his father whom he wants to forgive on the other. After one trial is over, another begins for Danny. Social services and the police convince Danny's mother that they must go into a victim protection program. Danny is asked to leave everything behind -- his home, his friends, and the love and support of his grandparents. In a new city and attending a new school, Danny is even given a new name -- David Mayer. But who is David? He is someone that Danny does not want to be, living a life he cannot accept. As David, he is pushing boundaries he never would have pushed.

Author : Sadakat Kadri
Publisher : Random House
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780307432704

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The Trial by Sadakat Kadri Pdf

For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom–and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama. A brilliantly engaging writer, Kadri journeys from the silence of ancient Egypt’s Hall of the Dead to the clamor of twenty-first-century Hollywood to show how emotion and fear have inspired Western notions of justice–and the extent to which they still riddle its trials today. He explains, for example, how the jury emerged in medieval England from trials by fire and water, in which validations of vengeance were presumed to be divinely supervised, and how delusions identical to those that once sent witches to the stake were revived as accusations of Satanic child abuse during the 1980s. Lifting the lid on a particularly bizarre niche of legal history, Kadri tells how European lawyers once prosecuted animals, objects, and corpses–and argues that the same instinctive urge to punish is still apparent when a child or mentally ill defendant is accused of sufficiently heinous crimes. But Kadri’s history is about aspiration as well as ignorance. He shows how principles such as the right to silence and the right to confront witnesses, hallmarks of due process guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, were derived from the Bible by twelfth-century monks. He tells of show trials from Tudor England to Stalin’s Soviet Union, but contends that “no-trials,” in Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere, are just as repugnant to Western traditions of justice and fairness. With governments everywhere eroding legal protections in the name of an indefinite war on terror, Kadri’s analysis could hardly be timelier. At once encyclopedic and entertaining, comprehensive and colorful, The Trial rewards curiosity and an appreciation of the absurd but tackles as well questions that are profound. Who has the right to judge, and why? What did past civilizations hope to achieve through scapegoats and sacrifices–and to what extent are defendants still made to bear the sins of society at large? Kadri addresses such themes through scores of meticulously researched stories, all told with the verve and wit that won him one of Britain’s most prestigious travel-writing awards–and in doing so, he has created a masterpiece of popular history.

Author : Don Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0890814988

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Trial by Trial by Don Stephens Pdf

Three men; one American, one British, and one Greek, are convicted of giving a New Testament to a young Greek man in 1984 and sentenced to three and one-half years imprisonment.

Author : Geoffrey Douglas Egon Adair
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Criminal procedure
ISBN : OSU:32437000219929

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On Trial by Geoffrey Douglas Egon Adair Pdf

Author : MICHELLE. FUERST
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0779886305

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TRIAL OF SEXUAL OFFENCE CASES. by MICHELLE. FUERST Pdf

Author : Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780887848544

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Democracy on Trial by Jean Bethke Elshtain Pdf

Is democracy as we know it in danger? More and more we confront one another as aggrieved groups rather than as free citizens. Deepening cynicism, the growth of corrosive individualism, statism, and the loss of civil society are warning signs that democracy may be incapable of satisfying the yearnings it itself unleashes - yearnings for freedom, fairness, and equality. In her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into these complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival.

Author : Cara Robertson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781501168390

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The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson Pdf

In Cara Robertson’s “enthralling new book,” The Trial of Lizzie Borden, “the reader is to serve as judge and jury” (The New York Times). Based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence, this true crime and legal history is the “definitive account to date of one of America’s most notorious and enduring murder mysteries” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple’s younger daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her murder trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom. The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence. Everyone—rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars and laypeople—had an opinion about Lizzie Borden’s guilt or innocence. Was she a cold-blooded murderess or an unjustly persecuted lady? Did she or didn’t she? An essential piece of American mythology, the popular fascination with the Borden murders has endured for more than one hundred years. Told and retold in every conceivable genre, the murders have secured a place in the American pantheon of mythic horror. In contrast, “Cara Robertson presents the story with the thoroughness one expects from an attorney…Fans of crime novels will love it” (Kirkus Reviews). Based on transcripts of the Borden legal proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, unpublished local accounts, and recently unearthed letters from Lizzie herself, The Trial of Lizzie Borden is “a fast-paced, page-turning read” (Booklist, starred review) that offers a window into America in the Gilded Age. This “remarkable” (Bustle) book “should be at the top of your reading list” (PopSugar).

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736837256

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The Trial / Der Proceß by Franz Kafka Pdf

This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German. "The Trial" (original German title: "Der Process", later "Der Prozess", "Der Proceß" and "Der Prozeß") is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor the reader. Like Kafka's other novels, "The Trial" was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to an end. Because of this, there are some inconsistencies and discontinuities in narration within the novel, such as disparities in timing. After Kafka's death in 1924 his friend and literary executor Max Brod edited the text for publication by Verlag Die Schmiede. The original manuscript is held at the Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany. In 1999, the book was listed in "Le Monde"'s 100 Books of the Century and as No. 2 of the Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century. "Der Process" (auch "Der Prozeß" oder "Der Proceß", Titel der Erstausgabe: "Der Prozess") ist neben "Der Verschollene" (auch unter dem Titel "Amerika" bekannt) und "Das Schloss" einer von drei unvollendeten und postum erschienenen Romanen von Franz Kafka.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : German fiction
ISBN : 0706405714

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The Trial ; America ; The Castle ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Settlement ; The Great Wall of China ; Investigations of a Dog ; Letter to His Father ; The Diaries, 1910-23 by Franz Kafka Pdf

This volume contains the great works of fiction as well as the complete diaries and thus gives the reader considrable insight into the mind of this strange and powerful man.

Author : Henry Ansgar Kelly,Louis W. Karlin,Gerard Wegemer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843836292

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Thomas More's Trial by Jury by Henry Ansgar Kelly,Louis W. Karlin,Gerard Wegemer Pdf

This book challenges the recently established consensus that the trial was a carefully prepared and executed judicial process in which the judges were amenable to reasonable arguments. Thomas More's treason trial in 1535 is one of history's most famous court cases, yet never before have all the major documents been collected, translated, and analyzed by a team of legal and Tudor scholars. This edition serves asan important sourcebook and concludes with a 'docudrama' reconstructing the course of the trial based on these documents. Legal experts H. A. Kelly and R. H. Helmholz take different approaches to the legalities of this trial, and four experienced judges [including Justice of the Queen's Bench Sir Michael Tugendhat] discuss the trial with some disagreements - notably on the meaning and requirement of 'malice' called for in the Parliamentary Act of Supremacy. More's own accounts of his interrogations in prison are analyzed, and the trial's procedures are compared to and contrasted with 16th-century concepts of natural law and also modern judicial practices and principles. The book is a 'must read' not only for students of law and Tudor history but also for all concerned with justice and due process. As a whole, the book challenges Duncan Derrett's conclusions that the trial was conducted in accord with contemporary legal norms and that More was convicted only on the single charge of denying Parliament the power to declare Henry VIII Supreme Head of the English Church [testified to by Richard Rich] - a position that has been uniformly accepted by historians since 1964. HENRY ANSGAR KELLY is past Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA. LOUIS W. KARLIN is an attorney with the California Court of Appeal and Fellow of the Center for Thomas More Studies, University of Dallas. GERARD B. WEGEMER is Director of the Center for Thomas More Studies.