Introduction / Anne-Marie Kilday and David Nash -- 'A monstrous innovation on the laws' : murder and double jeopardy at the Old Bailey / Heather ShoreII -- Legislating to ensure 'impartial' justice : Palmer's Act of 1856 / Katherine WatsonIII -- 'All that they had heard, all that they had read, all that they had seen' : questions of fairness and justice in the trial of George Vass / Helen Rutherford and Clare Sandford-Couch -- The trials of Peter Barrett : a microhistory of dysfunction in the Irish criminal justice system / Niamh Howlin -- The Maamtrasna murders : The trial of Myles Joyce / Conor Hanly -- George Bedborough and the Watford University Press : a 'scandalous and obscene libel in the form of a book' -- The almost accidental prosecution of sexual inversion / Lesley Hall -- 'Circumstances of unexplained savagery' : The Gilchrist Murder Case and its legacy, 1908-1927 / Anne-Marie Kilday -- 'Police fiasco', 'the black army', 'Devil Dodgers' and 'humbug' : the apparent 'inevitably' of unfair blasphemy trials up to 1922 / David Nash -- The 'bobbed-haired bandit' and smash-and-grab raider / Alyson Brown.
Summary:
"An exploration of criminal cases and problematic trials in England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1800-1940"-- Provided by publisher.
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