Literature, judges and the law / W. N. Osborough.

Dublin : Four Courts Press Ltd., 2008.

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Allusions.

Judgments -- Ireland.

Judgments -- Great Britain.

Law and literature.

Law in literature.

1. The Bible --2. Greece and Rome --3. The Middle Ages --4. Shakespeare --5. Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries --6. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Because there is no standard format of the composition of judgments within the common law dispensation, members of the judiciary have sometimes found it useful to embellish their judgments by including quotations from literature. This book examines a number of these quotations and attempts to explain the legal context within which they were used.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781846820793

viii, 171 p. ; 24 cm