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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Dearest Birth Right of the People of England: The Jury in the History of the Common Law by Edited by Jr. John Cairns Edited by Grant MacLeod
While much fundamental research in the recent past has been devoted to the criminal jury in England to 1800there has been little work on the nineteenth century and on the civil jury . This important study fills these obvious gaps in the literature. It also provides a re-assessment of standard issues such as jury lenity or equity while raising questions about orthodoxies concerning the relationship of the jury to the development of laws of evidence. Moreover re-assessment of the jury in nineteenth-century England rejects the thesis that juries were squeezed out by judges in favour of market principles. The book contributes a rounded picture of the jury as an institution considering it in comparison to other modes of fact-finding its development in both civil and criminal cases and the significance both practical and ideological of its transplantation to North America and Scotland while opening up new areas of investigation and research. Contributors: John W Cairns Richard D Friedman Joshua Getzler Roger D Groot Philip Handler Daffydd Jenkins Michael Lobban Grant McLeod Maureen Mulholland James C Oldham J R Pole David J Seippshow more