The Language of the law
Subtitle: an anthology of legal prose
By: selected and edited by Louis Blom-Cooper ; assisted by Edward Jackson ; with a foreword by Lord Radcliffe.
Contributors: Blom-Cooper, Louis Jacques.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Law.; Judicial opinions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: I. On and off the bench: From Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral: Of judicature / Francis Bacon; title: The last forty years of the Irish bar / Serjeant Sullivan; title: A day in my life in the county court / Judge Parry; title: Some aspects of the work of The Court of Appeal / Lord Asquith; title: A ministry of justice / Mr. Justice Cardozo; title: II. Crime and punishment: The punishment of convicts / Mr. Justice Stephen; title: A simple statement / Lord Inglis; title: White collar crime / Lord Macnaghten; title: An admonition / Lord Cooper; title: Counsel of deception / Lord Pearce; title: Police practices / Judge Frank; title: Evidence from eavesdropping / Mr. Justice Holmes and Mr. Justice Brandeis; title: Dirty business / Mr. Justice Frankfurter; title: III. Family relations: The marriage union / Lord Stowell; title: Illegitimate insularity / Lord Justice James; title: The enfant gâté of Roscarberry / Lord O'Brien; title: A woman's place / Mr. Justice Isaacs; title: Wounded feelings / Mr. Justice Hiemstra; title: The lay-about / Lord Justice Harman; title: IV. Slaves and citizens: The black goes free / Mr. Justice McLean; title: No caste here / Mr. Justice Harlan; title: Entrenched clauses / Mr. Justice van den Heever; title: Freedom for thought / Mr. Justice Holmes; title: V. P.P.E.: Laissez-faire / Lord Bowen; title: Free trade / Mr. Justice Rich; title: Pyrrhic victory / Mr. Justice Black; title: The authorised voice / Mr. Justice Holmes; title: Marxism at law / Mr. Justice Evatt; title: Point of danger / Judget Learned Hand; title: McCarthy redivivus? / Mr. Justice Douglas; title: Limits of tolerance / Mr. Justice Holmes; title: Incitement / Mr. Justice Holmes; title: VI. Words, words, words...: Art for art's sake / Judge Augustus Hand and Judge Manton; title: Speaking up for Hitler / Mr. Justice Millin; title: Anglo-Indian privilege / Mr. Justice Blagden; title: The meaning of money / Lord Atkin; title: Cows and bitches / Mr. Justice Price; title: Nymphet on trial / Sir Kenneth Gresson; title: English idioms from the penal law / Sir Jocelyn Simon; title: VII. Judicial restraint: Name and dignity / Chief Justice Crewe; title: Right to be heard / Chief Justice Pratt and Mr. Justice Fortescue; title: Common law / Mr. Justice Holmes; title: Lawyers as judges / Mr. Justice Krause; title: The unbranded order / Viscount Radcliffe; title: No well-tuned cymbal / Lord Denning; title: Non-conformity no disgrace / Lord Devlin; title: A judge's duty / The Supreme Court of Israel; title: Judicial silence-public noise / Mr. Justice Frankfurter and Mr. Justice Douglas; title: VIII. Judicial felicities: Mrs. Bunch's baggage / Lord Macnaghten; title: Common carrier / Mr. Justice O'Brien; title: The reasonable rescuer / Mr. Justice Cardozo; title: Round in bogey / Lord Thomson; title: Wicklow picnic / Lord O'Brien; title: Night thoughts / Mr. Justice Dysart; title: Ambidextrous sheriff / Mr. Justice G.N. Holmes; title: Time and space / Mr. Justice van den Heever; title: Advice to a young man interested in going into law / Mr. Justice Frankfurter; title: This charm of endearment / Mr. D.F. Wilson; title: In the lands tribunal / Mr. John Watson; title: Envoi-judicial infelicity / Professor Richard Field.