Hints on Advocacy

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Waterlow, 1880 - Broj stranica: 372
With Suggestions as to Opening a Case, Examination-In-Chief, Cross-Examination, Re-Examination, Reply, Conduct of a Prosecution and of a Defense, Etc., and Illustrative Cases.
 

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Stranica 197 - Lordships, which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind, that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows in the discharge of that office but one person in the world — that client and none other. To save that client by all expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the...
Stranica 194 - Juries have declared that they felt it impossible to remove their looks from him when he had riveted and, as it were, fascinated them by his first glance...
Stranica 197 - And he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction, which he may bring upon any others. Nay, separating even the duties of a patriot from those of an advocate, he must go on, reckless of the consequences, if his fate should unhappily be to involve his country in confusion for his client.
Stranica 362 - They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people, whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws; and therefore they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause, and trust it to the judge, as in other places the client trusts it to a counsellor.
Stranica 197 - Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means— to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties...
Stranica 75 - I am convinced that the most effectual mode of eliciting truth, is quite different from that by which an honest, simple-minded witness is most easily baffled and confused. I have seen the experiment tried, of subjecting a witness to such a kind of cross-examination by a...
Stranica 368 - ... threatened with all manner of punishment; he must be made to feel that he has no friend near him, that the world is all against him; he must be confounded till he forget his right hand from his left, till his mind be turned into chaos, and his heart into water; and then let him give his evidence.
Stranica 336 - Full of good sense and just observation. A very complete Manual of the Advocate's art in Trial by Jury."— Solicitors
Stranica 368 - ... he has no friend near him, that the world is all against him; he must be confounded till he forget his right hand from his left, till his mind be turned into chaos, and his heart into water; and then let him give his evidence. What will fall from his lips when in this wretched collapse must be of special value, for the best talents of practised forensic heroes are daily used to bring it about; and no member of the Humane Society interferes to protect the wretch. Some sorts of torture are as it...
Stranica 364 - ... fluent, but often incorrect, and scarcely ever polished. Having but little of the pride of a rhetorician, he subordinated strictly all other considerations to the end he was seeking to achieve, and readily sacrificed every grace of style in order to produce an immediate effect. ' A great speech,' he used to say, is a very fine thing ; but, after all, the verdict is THE thing.

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