Civil Procedure

An invaluable resource for trainee and newly qualified solicitors in Ireland, Civil Litigation provides a comprehensive understanding of the practice and procedure in the most commonly encountered aspects of civil litigation. The manual sets out the...

Winner of the Scribes Book Award"Displays a level of intellectual honesty one rarely encounters these days...This is delightful stuff."-Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal"At a time when the concept of truth itself is in trouble, this lively and accessible...

Juries have a tremendous amount of power and responsibility. They determine the outcomes of trials, including whether a defendant is found guilty or not guilty and, in many cases, what the penalty will be. With the authority to deprive citizens of their...

Practical Guide to Evidence provides a clear and readable account of the law of evidence, acknowledging the importance of arguments about facts and principles as well as rules. This fifth edition has been revised and updated to address recent changes in...

At some point, everyone living in the United States has some type of interaction with the American judicial system. For most, this contact is relatively minor: contesting a traffic ticket, suing or being sued in civil court, being a witness in a civil or...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, has been called the greatest jurist and legal scholar in the history of the English-speaking world. In this collection of his speeches, opinions and letters, Richard Posner reveals the fullness of Holmes' achievements as judge,...

We live in an era of economic austerity and political uncertainty. This has profound implications for all areas of publicly funded services; the justice system is no exception. During such times, the judiciary must remain steadfast in maintaining their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858117119Author John KruseFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint PP PublishingPublisher XPL Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967097336Author Allan H. GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Solomon PublicationsPublisher Solomon PublicationsWeight(grams) 186g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999592984Author Robert SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Robert F. SIMMsPublisher Robert F. SIMMsWeight(grams) 340g

To consider the problems of high litigation costs and delay that burden both plaintiffs and defendants, average citizens and large corporations, Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested in August 1988 the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815756613Author R. Shep MelnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

For this edition, Rashke has added a preface and three short chapters that explore what has been released and learned about the Silkwood case since the book's original publication.Karen Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601565488Author Melissa M GomezFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Aspen PublishersPublisher Aspen PublishersWeight(grams) 281g

Juries are the one place where common citizens play an important part in the governmental process. But both the jury system and the American legal system itself have been under attack. Juries have been reduced in size, their selection procedures altered,...

Lessons Learned from a Life on Trial is a must-read for new trial lawyers to reference again and again. The word "trial" comes from the 12th Century Gallo-Roman triare, meaning, "to separate out [the good] by examination. " Daniel Small, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472068227Author Nancy MaveetyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Forensic Science in Court explores the legal implications of forensic science-an increasingly important and complex part of the justice system. Judge Donald Shelton provides an accessible overview of the legal aissues, from the history of evidence in...

Chapter introductions give overviews of the current state of the law, including the major recent cases in most jurisdictions, with discussions of the practical issues you might have to consider. Individual instructions are followed by commentary that...

Street protests in the 'Arab Spring' countries have illustrated that public demand for recovering stolen assets has grown exponentially, as have expectations by concerned populations and governments. From a topic discussed in expert forums, it has thus...

High Court Case Summaries on Civil Procedure, Ninth, contains well-prepared briefs for each major case in Yeazell's casebook on Civil Procedure. High Court briefs are written to present the essential facts, issue, decision and rationale for each case in...

The first comprehensive history of criminal law in early New EnglandBook InformationISBN 9781558497726Author Edgar J. McManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815624684Author Charles T. GehringFormat HardbackPage Count 591Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884956126Author Mike ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Quill Driver Books, U.S.Publisher Quill Driver Books, U.S.Weight(grams) 152g

Traditional Chinese law, including Qing law, was often criticized as being inapplicable in civil trials and it was often believed that the magistrate's court preferred mediation rather than decision-making. This volume challenges these views and repairs...

The American legal system is experiencing a period of extreme stress, if not crisis, as it seems to be losing its legitimacy with at least some segments of its constituency. Nowhere is this legitimacy deficit more apparent than in a portion of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560118510Author North Carolina Department of the Secretary of StateFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint School of GovernmentPublisher School of...

Constitutional theory, Earl Maltz argues, has reached a critical impasse marked by a largely unproductive stalemate between originalists and nonoriginalists regarding the proper role of judicial review. It's time, he says, for both sides to rethink their...

In this volume, a collection of his ABA Journal litigation column published between 1994 and 2011, Jim McElhaney provides comprehensive advice on how to avoid the snares, traps, and pitfalls that challenge every trial lawyer, veterans and novices alike...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423233053Author BarCharts, Inc.Page Count 6Imprint Barcharts, IncPublisher Barcharts, IncDimensions(mm) 279mm * 4mm * 215mm

This updated edition is designed to help lawyers prepare clients for the very formal and unnatural "question-and-answer" environment. Written by ABA bestselling author and seasoned litigator Dan Small, this easy-to-read guide provides a systematic...

This comprehensive, 600-page book helps both experienced counsel and rookies advance their clients' cause more effectively at every stage of the mediation process. A few more examples: * Creating a plan for movement" in offers and counteroffers *...

Trial Notebook offers hundreds of techniques and tactics for every stage of a trial's progress in spare, lively, memorable prose. You get strategies grounded in actual courtroom experience that will improve the effectiveness of your advocacy.About the...

Michael E. Tigar has distilled 30 years of litigating and studying effective advocates into this valuable book which contains critical keys to persuading jurors and judges. Starting with a brief background on classical rhetoric and persuasion theories,...

Now in its sixth edition, this is an invaluable study guide for students of Scots Law, showing how the law of evidence operates within Scotland. Providing up-to-date, concise and comprehensive coverage of the law of evidence, it is the ideal text for...

This highly useful volume contains the complete text of The Constitution of the United States, including all 26 amendments, as well as the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the key sections of the Civil Rights Act and the...

This book focuses on the Twenty-Fifth Amendment - its meaning, legislative history, and applications. The Amendment has been criticized for being vague and undemocratic. It has been praised for making possible swift and orderly successions to the...

Since 2006, the United Nations and Cambodian Government have participated in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a hybrid tribunal created to try key Khmer Rouge officials for crimes of the Pol Pot era. In Hybrid Justice, John D...

The American legal system is experiencing a period of extreme stress, if not crisis, as it seems to be losing its legitimacy with at least some segments of its constituency. Nowhere is this legitimacy deficit more apparent than in a portion of the...