Cannibalism and Common Law: A Victorian Yachting TragedyBloomsbury Academic, 1994 - 353 páginas Cannibalism and the Common Law is an enthralling classic of legal history. It tells the tragic story of the yacht Mignonette, which foundered on its way from England to Australia in 1884. The killing and eating of one of the crew, Richard Parker, led to the leading case in the defence of necessity, R. v. Dudley and Stephens. It resulted in their being convicted and sentenced to death, a sentence subsequently commuted. In this tour de force Brian Simpson sets the legal proceedings in their broadest historical context, providing a detailed account of the events and characters involved and of life at sea in the time of sail. Cannibalism and the Common Law is a demonstration that legal history can be written in human terms and can be compulsive reading. This brilliant and fascinating book, a marvelous example of eareful historical detection, and first-class legal history, written by a master. |
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... court ( known as sitting in banc — as a bench ) , com- prising the chief justice and the other judges . The basis for the ju- risdiction of the two courts was quite distinct , and the Court of King's ( or Queen's ) Bench was the senior ...
... Court of Crown Cases Reserved ( and sometimes the Court of Criminal Appeal ) until it was abolished in 1907. But for a case to be brought before it , there must have been a conviction , and Dudley and Stephens had not been convicted ...
... Court of Justice . " But what was the ghostly relic of the old Court of Queen's Bench ? In fact the Judicature Act of 1873 , which governed the matter , had made special provision for what were called " divisional courts " to handle ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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