Adversarial Case-Making - An Ethnography of English Crown Court Procedure (Hardcover)

Cases are not objects at hand for legal decision-making; cases are not echoes from a past crime. Cases are, first of all, made within compound discourse apparatus, here the English Crown Court and the procedure/s attached to it. This book reveals the legal production of cases including their relevant features. The socio-legal ethnography visits the natural sites of adversarial case-making: law firms, barristers' chambers, and Crown Courts. It examines the role and dynamics of client-lawyer meetings, pre-trial hearings, plea bargaining sessions, and jury trials. It focuses on the lawyers' case-making activities, their procedural contexts, and the resulting cases. As an ethnographic discourse study, the book develops a trans-sequential perspective on the interrelated events and processes of case-making - and by doing so, overcomes the shortcomings of talk-bias and text-bias. The trans-sequential approach pays out in detailed case studies on an alibi, on guilt, or the barrister's notes; it pays out as well in cross-case studies dealing with legal care, procedural infrastructure, or the case system in the common law tradition.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, 116
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	September 2010
Authors:	Thomas Scheffer
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	286
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-18726-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Law > International law > International criminal law Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	90-04-18726-X
Barcode:	9789004187269

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