Subject: summary justice : judges address juries

robertshaw , paul ( university of wales ) ; summary justice : judges address juries published by cassell as part of the open lingustics series ; hb . : 0 304 33701 3 ; us $ 75 . 00 / 55 . 00 this is the first study of the practice of judical summing-up to juries and of its 's urvey of the evidence ' as rhetoric , persuasive language , in the crown court in england and wales . the transcripts of these summings-up can vary from a few to hundreds of pages , and are significant in that they break the flow between advocates ' turn-taking , especially their final speeches , and the deliberation of the jury . in addition to its linguistic and rhetorical concerns , the book considers this practice of summing-up as a legal problem - as unrecognized advocacy - and examines alternatives , such as the us states ' , canadian and scottish models . the scottish model is prescribed for consideration by anglo - welsh judges , with its insistence on parsimonious reference to the disputed narrative , only where relevant to the legal issues on which instruction is being given . available for review . email : sales @ cassellexport . demon . co . uk
