From Truth to Technique at Trial: A Discursive History of Advocacy Advice Texts by Philip Gaines (2016), Oxford University Press xii + 219pp

Authors

  • Gail Stygall University of Washington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.34778

Keywords:

Discursive History, advocacy advice

Abstract

From Truth to Technique at Trial: A Discursive History of Advocacy Advice Texts by Philip Gaines (2016), Oxford University Press xii + 219pp

Author Biography

  • Gail Stygall, University of Washington
    University of Washington

References

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Harris, R. (1880) Hints on Advocacy (Useful for Practice in Any of the Courts), with Suggestions as to Opening the Plaintiff’s Case, Examination-in-Chief, Cross-Examination, Classes of Witnesses and Mode of Cross-Examining them, Re-Examination, Opening and Summing-up the Defendant’s Case, Reply, Conduct of a Prosecution and Defence in a Criminal Trial, with Illustrative Cases (4th edn). London: Waterlow Brothers & Layton.

Hortensius (1789) Deinology or the Union of Reason and Elegance, Being Instructions to a Young Barrister, with a Postscript Suggesting Some Considerations of the Viva Voce Examination of Witnesses at the English Bar. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson.

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2017-12-20

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Stygall, G. (2017). From Truth to Technique at Trial: A Discursive History of Advocacy Advice Texts by Philip Gaines (2016), Oxford University Press xii + 219pp. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 24(2), 257-260. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.34778