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The Tyrannicide Brief - The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold (Paperback, New ed)
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The Tyrannicide Brief - The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold (Paperback, New ed)
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Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their
lives. But in 1649 parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with
the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law: in
the end the man they briefed was the radical barrister, John Cooke.
Cooke was a plebeian, son of a poor farmer, but he had the courage
to bring the King's trial to its dramatic conclusion: the English
republic. Cromwell appointed him as a reforming Chief Justice in
Ireland, but in 1660 he was dragged back to the Old Bailey, tried
and brutally executed. John Cooke was the bravest of barristers,
who risked his own life to make tyranny a crime. He originated the
right to silence, the 'cab rank' rule of advocacy and the duty to
act free-of-charge for the poor. He conducted the first trial of a
Head of State for waging war on his own people - a forerunner of
the prosecutions of Pinochet, Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, and a
lasting inspiration to the modern world.
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