UID:
almafu_9959243293702883
Format:
1 online resource (355 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
1-4426-8534-4
Series Statement:
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Content:
The jury, a central institution of the trial process, exemplifies in popular perception the distinctiveness of our legal tradition. Nevertheless, juries today try only a small minority of cases. A Trying Question traces the history of the jury in Canada and links its nineteenth-century decline to the rise of the professional class.R. Blake Brown shows that juries could be controversial, as they could be stacked and were often considered a nuisance by those who had to serve. With the legal profession's expansion, many saw them as amateur, ineffective, and unnecessarily expensive bodies that ought to be supplanted by those trained to sift through and correctly interpret evidence.A Trying Question's fascinating history outlines the ways in which lay people became less involved in Canada's legal system and illustrates how judges, rather than jurors drawn from the community, would come to find verdicts in most court cases.
Note:
Includes index.
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Storms, roads, and harvest time : the jury system and attitudes toward jury service in Nova Scotia -- The jury system and attitudes toward jury service in Upper Canada -- "The bean box" : reformers and the politicization of the jury system in Nova Scotia -- Reformers, rebellion, and the jury system of Upper Canada -- Responsible government, the magistrates' affair, and the breakdown of the Nova Scotia jury system -- Responsible government and the 1850 Upper Canada Jury Act -- "We have now no fears of star chamber justice" : the decline of the jury in Nova Scotia -- "The day has gone by for the worshop of legal idols" : the decline of the jury in Ontario -- Conclusion.
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Also available in print version.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-4038-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442685345
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