Famous Cases
Nine Trials that Changed the Law
Every lawyer knows of Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions, the ruling which established the 'Golden thread of English law' whereby the burden of proof lies with the prosecutor in a criminal trial. But who was Woolmington and how many people know that he escaped the death penalty at the eleventh hour, or that he was in fact twice tried for murder? 'Lords give man back his life' as the Western Gazette put it. In the civil law, how and why did a Mrs. Donoghue come to be drinking a bottle of ginger beer containing the remnants of a snail, an event which would determine that 'the categories of negligence are never closed'? And how did t…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Hostettler, John
- ISBN: 978-1-872870-34-2
- EAN: 9781872870342
- Produktnummer: 4010249
- Verlag: Waterside Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 136 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D0.7 cm 219 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 219
Über den Autor
Brian P Block has a doctorate in pharmacology and has spent decades testing the safety of new medicines. He holds degrees in pharmacy (London), criminal justice (Brunel) and Chinese (Westminster), and is a former Fulbright scholar and a post-doctoral research fellow at Yale University. He is a magistrate and a regular contributor to the national weekly journal Justice of the Peace. His earlier writings include Hanging in the Balance: The Abolition of Capital Punishment in Britain with John Hostettler.
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