![Adversarial Case-Making: An Ethnography of English Crown Court Procedure [Repost]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/86/47/00294786_medium.jpeg)
Adversarial Case-Making: An Ethnography of English Crown Court Procedure [Repost]
![Adversarial Case-Making: An Ethnography of English Crown Court Procedure [Repost]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/86/47/00294786.jpeg)
Thomas Scheffer - Adversarial Case-Making: An Ethnography of English Crown Court Procedure
Published: 2010-09-24 | ISBN: 900418726X | PDF | 283 pages | 3 MB
Cases 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.