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Includes an unpaged appendix, "royal warrant holders," and 19 a "war honours supplement."
Collected primary sources providing a first-hand account of the British attempt to negotiate a settlement of the Irish question.
This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries. Advocacy, the means by which a barrister puts their client’s case to the court and jury, has grown piecemeal and at an uneven pace; the result of a complex interplay of many influences. Andrew Watson examines the numerous principal factors, from the effect on juniors of successful styles deployed by senior advocates, changes in court procedure, reforms in laws determining who and what may be put before courts, the amount of media reporting of court cases, and public and press opinion about the acceptable limits of advocates’ tactics and oratory. This book also explores the extent to which jur...
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Hutchinson, John. A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars, with Brief Biographical Notices. [London]: The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, 1902. xiv, 284 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002041361. ISBN 1-58477-323-5. Cloth. $80. * Brief biographies of nearly one thousand distinguished Templars admitted between 1501 to 1901, such as Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Henry Fielding, Sir William Jones, Lord Kenyon and Sir John Skene. A handy volume for the scholar of English law.
`Simply a great work of reference. Future scholars will wonder how anybody managed without the Wellesley Index. It will quietly change the whole nature of Victorian studies.' Christopher Ricks, New Statesman `It is now impossible to think of Victorian literary and historical studies without the benefit of it ... this is a very remarkable achievement indeed ... the complete set will be a monument to the Houghtons foresight, pertinacity and skill.' TLS