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Sir William Garrow PC KC FRS (13 April 1760 – 24 September 1840) was an English barrister, politician and judge known for his indirect reform of the advocacy system, which helped usher in the adversarial court system used in most common law nations today.
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17 de may. de 2010 · Books. Sir William Garrow: His Life, Times and Fight for Justice. John Hostettler, Richard Braby. Waterside Press, May 17, 2010 - Law - 355 pages. A comprehensive account of lawyer William...
Sir William Garrow was born in Middlesex in 1760 and called to the Bar in 1783. He was the dominant figure at the Old Bailey from 1783 to 1793, later becoming an MP, Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and finally a judge and lawmaker within the Common Law Tradition.
But William Garrow (1760-1840) was unusual. He was part of the first generation of ‘Old Bailey barristers’ and through his eloquence and devastating effectiveness, he gained a reputation as an excellent criminal defense barrister and was propelled into the public eye, helping to reform the criminal justice system as he went along.
30 de nov. de 2009 · A must-read for anyone who wants to know more about William Garrow, the pioneering 18th century English barrister who raised the rigorous cross-examination of prosecution witnesses to an art form, paving the way for the modern adversarial system as practised in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, including the US.
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Sir William Garrow: His Life, Times and Fight for Justice. John Hostettler· . Richard Braby. May 2010· Waterside Press. 5.0star. 1 review. Ebook. 355. Pages. family_home. Eligible. info.
In particular, the essay studies the confrontation in trials at the Old Bailey in the 1780s between these police officers and one of the most aggressive defence counsel of the period, William Garrow, and compares their treatment with the way Garrow dealt with private thief-takers and other officers.
