Product Description: Champions of the Rule of Law looks at an overarching principle of English law. It describes how a powerful and fundamental rule came about and how it has been preserved in the face of attempts to circumvent it. Standing at the heart of all matters of justice - and now exported to many parts of the world - the rule of law holds, in short, that the law applies in equal measure to everyone...read more

Product Description: "Those who are not familiar with the man would be well advised to read this biography without delay." - Law Society Gazette ** "This work is of more than historical interest. It shows how the advocate can affect the law, and by doing so, the constitution...read more

Product Description: Sir William Garrow was born in Middlesex, England in 1760. He was called to the legal profession in 1783. He became the dominant figure at Old Bailey - London's Central Criminal Court - from 1783 to 1793. Later on, he was a Member of Parliament, a Solicitor-General, an Attorney-General, and, finally, a judge and a lawmaker within the English Common Law Tradition...read more

Product Description: This brand new work charts all the main developments of criminal justice in England, from the genesis of Anglo-Saxon 'dooms' to the Common Law; struggles for political, legislative, and judicial ascendency; and the formation of the modern-day Criminal Justice System and Ministry of Justice...read more

Product Description: In October 2002 author John Hostettler was one of only six (6) Republican members of the United States House of Representatives to vote against the resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to invade Iraq. In Nothing for the Nation , Hostettler first explains why he voted against the authorization and what led him to proclaim on the floor of the House of Representatives two (2) days before that vote that the case supporting the allegation of a program of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq was tenuous at best...read more

Product Description: Adversary trial emerged in England in the 18th century. Its origins and significance had tended to go unrecognized by judges, lawyers, jurists, and researchers until relatively modern times. Even now, there is considerable dispute as to how and why adversary trial came into existence, and little connection has been made with the fact that its existence contributed to the genesis of a the modern doctrine of human rights, whereby citizens are able to make a stand against the power of the state or vested interest...read more

Product Description: A collection of some of the most famous cases in English law - with an explantion of how they changed things - by two leading commentators. Every UK lawyer knows of Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions, the ruling which established the ëgolden thread of English lawí whereby the burden of proof lies with the prosecutor in a criminal trial, even in the case of murder...read more