{"product_id":"adversarial-case-making-an-ethnography-of-english-crown-court-procedure-9789004187269","title":"Adversarial Case-Making: An Ethnography of English Crown Court Procedure","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Thomas Scheffer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCases are not objects at hand for legal decision-making; cases are not echoes from a past crime. Cases are, first of all, made within compound discourse apparatus, here the English Crown Court and the procedure\/s attached to it. This book reveals the legal production of cases including their relevant features. The socio-legal ethnography visits the natural sites of adversarial case-making: law firms, barristers' chambers, and Crown Courts. It examines the role and dynamics of client-lawyer meetings, pre-trial hearings, plea bargaining sessions, and jury trials. It focuses on the lawyers' case-making activities, their procedural contexts, and the resulting cases. As an ethnographic discourse study, the book develops a trans-sequential perspective on the interrelated events and processes of case-making - and by doing so, overcomes the shortcomings of talk-bias and text-bias. The trans-sequential approach pays out in detailed case studies on an alibi, on guilt, or the barrister's notes; it pays out as well in cross-case studies dealing with legal care, procedural infrastructure, or the case system in the common law tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891407503511,"sku":"9789004187269","price":18578.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789004187269.webp?v=1781183604","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/adversarial-case-making-an-ethnography-of-english-crown-court-procedure-9789004187269","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}