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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... evidence given in 1884. This is in one respect incomplete , since neither Dudley nor Stephens made any statement before the magistrates or gave evidence at the trial . Until the passing of the Criminal Evidence Act in 1898 , it was the ...
... evidence in court and thereby expose themselves to cross- examination to elicit the facts . Not until the Criminal Evidence Act of 1898 were prisoners on such a charge even allowed to give sworn evidence . As far as the preliminary ...
... evidence only against the individual concerned . He needed better and more evidence and suggested ( as had the attorney general ) that the best course was for the police magistrate to select whoever seemed the least guilty to turn ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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