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Famous Cases - Nine Trials That Changed the Law (Paperback)
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Famous Cases - Nine Trials That Changed the Law (Paperback)
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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
the tranquil market town of Wednesbury become shorthand for
'unreasonableness'? In Famous Cases: Nine Trials that Changed the
Law the authors have painstakingly assembled the less well-known
background to a selection of leading cases. From Mareva (synonymous
with a type of injunction) to Lord Denning's classic ruling in the
High Trees House case (the turning point for equitable estoppel) to
that of the former Chilean head of state General Pinochet (in which
the House of Lords heard the facts a second time) the authors offer
a refreshing perspective to whet the appetite of newcomers,
students and seasoned practitioners alike. The book has an
authoritative introduction describing 'The Origins of the Common
Law' and is enhanced by key extracts from the law reports
reproduced courtesy of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting
for England and Wales and the Butterworths Division of Reed
Elsevier (UK) Ltd - making it not just an absorbing read but an
important work of reference for every legal library and collection.
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