The dearest birth right of the people of England
Subtitle: the jury in the history of the common law
By: edited by John Cairns and Grant Macleod.
Contributors: Cairns, John.; Macleod, Grant.
Publisher: Hart; Hart Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford ; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Jury -- Great Britain -- History.; Legal History
Description: While much fundamental research in the recent past has been devoted to the criminal jury in England to 1800,there has been little work on the nineteenth century, and on the civil jury . This important study fills these obvious gaps in the literature. It also provides a re-assessment of standard issues such as jury lenity or equity, while raising questions about orthodoxies concerning the relationship of the jury to the development of laws of evidence. Moreover, re-assessment of the jury in nineteenth-century England rejects the thesis that juries were squeezed out by judges in favour of market principles. The book contributes a rounded picture of the jury as an institution, considering it in comparison to other modes of fact-finding, its development in both civil and criminal cases, and the significance, both practical and ideological, of its transplantation to North America and Scotland, while opening up new areas of investigation and research. Contributors: John W Cairns Richard D Friedman Joshua Getzler Roger D Groot Philip Handler Daffydd Jenkins Michael Lobban Grant McLeod Maureen Mulholland James C Oldham J R Pole David J Seipp
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: John W. Cairns; title: John W. Cairns -- Dafydd Jenkins; title: John W. Cairns -- Dafydd Jenkins -- Roger D. Groot; title: John W. Cairns -- Dafydd Jenkins -- Roger D. Groot -- Maureen Mulholland; title: John W. Cairns -- Dafydd Jenkins -- Roger D. Groot -- Maureen Mulholland -- David J. Seipp; title: John W. Cairns -- Dafydd Jenkins -- Roger D. Groot -- Maureen Mulholland -- David J. Seipp -- Richard D. Friedman; title: John W. Cairns -- Dafydd Jenkins -- Roger D. Groot -- Maureen Mulholland -- David J. Seipp -- Richard D. Friedman -- J.R. Pole; title: John W. Cairns -- Dafydd Jenkins -- Roger D. Groot -- Maureen Mulholland -- David J. Seipp -- Richard D. Friedman -- J.R. Pole -- James Oldham; title: John W. Cairns -- Dafydd Jenkins -- Roger D. Groot -- Maureen Mulholland -- David J. Seipp -- Richard D. Friedman -- J.R. Pole -- James Oldham -- Philip Handler; title: John W. Cairns -- Dafydd Jenkins -- Roger D. Groot -- Maureen Mulholland -- David J. Seipp -- Richard D. Friedman -- J.R. Pole -- James Oldham -- Philip Handler -- Michael Lobban; title: John W. Cairns-- Dafydd Jenkins-- Roger D. Groot-- Maureen Mulholland-- David J. Seipp-- Richard D. Friedman-- J.R. Pole-- James Oldham-- Philip Handler-- Michael Lobban-- Joshua Getzler.