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Author:   Sean Doran ,  Professor John D Jackson (University of Nottingham)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9781841130453

ISBN 10:   1841130451
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   04 December 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

PART I: JUDGING LAW AND FACT 1.The Necessarily Expanding Role of the Criminal Trial Judge 2.Comparative Perspectives on the Judicial Role 3.Fact Determination: Common Sense Knowledge, Judicial Notice and Social Science Evidence 4.The Separation of Questions of Law and Fact in the New Russian and Spanish Jury Verdicts PART II: PROTECTION OF RIGHTS AND PREVENTION OF UNFAIRNESS 5.Plea Bargaining: Ethics and Politics 6.Attempting to Ensure Fairness in the Glare of the Media 7.The Impact of Human Rights on Judicial Decision Making in Criminal Cases 8.Evidential Rules for Criminal Trials: Who Should be in Charge? 9.Victims and the Criminal Process: A Public Service Ethos for Criminal Justice? 10.Judges and Gender 11.Co-operative Justice and the Adversarial Criminal Trial: Lessons from the Woolf Report 12.Raising Concerns about Magistrates’ Clerks PART IV: JUDGES AND JUDGING IN TIMES OF CRISIS 13.The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa 14.Judicial Roles and the Criminal Process During States of Emergency: A Framework for Analysis 15.Emergency Cases: Commissions, Commissioners and the Commodity of Justice PART V: SENTENCING 16.The United States Perspective on the Judicial Role in Sentencing: A Story of Small Victories and a Call for Partial Solutions in a Difficult Environment 17.Some Reflections on the Federal Judicial Role During the War on Drugs 18.The Roles of Legislature and Judiciary in English Sentencing 19.The Judicial Role in the “Balance” between Two Visions of Justice in Sentencing 20.Judicial Discretion and Gender Issues in Sentencing

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...essays cover a wide range of criminal justice topicsallows the richness and interconnections of the criminal process to emerge.This is a valuable collection for all that are interested in the Anglo-American criminal process and the evolving, dynamic and often controversial role of judges in that process. Kent Roach, University of Toronto Public Law January 2001 This is a scholarly collection of thought provoking contributions to an ongoing debate in Britain and abroad. The calibre of the contributors to this book gives an indication of the weight of analysis presented here. It is another excellent addition to the already excellent Hart catalogue. Graeme Broadbent The Law Teacher January 2001

essays cover a wide range of criminal justice topicsallows the richness and interconnections of the criminal process to emerge.This is a valuable collection for all that are interested in the Anglo-American criminal process and the evolving, dynamic and often controversial role of judges in that process.Kent Roach, University of TorontoPublic LawJanuary 2001This is a scholarly collection of thought provoking contributions to an ongoing debate in Britain and abroad. The calibre of the contributors to this book gives an indication of the weight of analysis presented here. It is another excellent addition to the already excellent Hart catalogue.Graeme BroadbentThe Law TeacherJanuary 2001

Author Information

Sean Doran is Professor of Law at the Queen’s University of Belfast. John Jackson is a Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Queen’s University of Belfast.

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