UID:
almahu_9949372229202882
Format:
1 online resource (196 pages) :
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illustrations, charts
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-73445-0
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9786610734450
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1-84779-023-2
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1-4175-7600-6
Series Statement:
The Trial in history ; v. 2
Content:
Focusing both on English criminal, military, and parliamentary trials, and upon national and international trials for war crimes, this book illuminates the diverse forces that have shaped trials during the modern era.
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of legal abbreviations -- Introduction R. A. Melikan -- 1 Evidence law and the evidentiary objection: a view from the British Trials collection T. P. Gallanis -- 2 Sense and sensibility: fateful splitting in the Victorian insanity trial Joel Peter Eigen -- 3 Trials of character: the use of character evidence in Victorian sodomy trials H. G. Cocks -- 4 Pains and penalties procedure: how the House of Lords 'tried' Queen Caroline R. A. Melikan -- 5 The invention of trials in camera in security cases A. W. Brian Simpson -- 6 War crimes trials before international tribunals: legality and legitimacy Dominic McGoldrick -- 7 An embarrassing necessity: the Tokyo trial of Japanese leaders, 1946-48 Peter Lowe -- 8 The trial of Maurice Papon for crimes against humanity and the concept of bureaucratic crime Robert Boyce -- 9 The trial of Slobodan Milosevic: a twenty-first century trial? Dominic McGoldrick -- Index.
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Also available in print form.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-6486-4
Language:
English
