Famous cases : nine trials that changed the law / Brian P Block and John Hostettler.

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Winchester, Hampshire. : Waterside Pr, 2002.

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22881

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Trials -- History -- Great Britain.

Trials -- Collections.

Law -- History -- Trials.

Contents:

Part I. Introduction

1. Origin and growth of the common law

Part II. Criminal trials

2. George Joseph Smith and The brides in the bath

3. Woolmington's case

4. Gypsy Jim Smith

Part III. Civil cases

5. Donoghue v. Stevenson

6. Lord Denning's High Trees case

7. Rookes v. Barnard

8. The Mareva injunction

9. Wednesbury unreasonableness

Part IV. International law

10. The trials of Augusto Pinochet.

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Includes index.

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1872870341

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viii, 136 pages