A Trying Question : : The Jury in Nineteenth-Century Canada /

A Trying Question : : The Jury in Nineteenth-Century Canada / / R. Blake Brown.

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The jury, a central institution of the trial process, exemplifies in popular perception the distinctiveness of our legal tradition. Nevertheless, juries today try only a small minority of cases. A Trying Question traces the history of the jury in Canada and links its nineteenth-century decline to th...

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Brown, R. Blake,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / McMurtry, R. Roy / Phillips, Jim
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Juror Apathy and Allegations of Jury Packing, 1820s-1848
  • 1 Storms, Roads, and Harvest Time: The Jury System and Attitudes towards Jury Service in Nova Scotia
  • 2. The Jury System and Attitudes towards Jury Service in Upper Canada
  • 3. 'The Bean Box': Reformers and the Politicization of the Jury System in Nova Scotia
  • 4. Reformers, Rebellion, and the Jury System of Upper Canada
  • Part Two: Responsible Government and the Jury, 1848-1867
  • 5. Responsible Government, the Magistrates' Affair, and the Breakdown of the Nova Scotia Jury System
  • 6. Responsible Government and the 1850 Upper Canada Jury Act
  • Part Three: The Decline of the Jury in Post-Confederation Canada, 1867-1880s
  • 7. 'We Have Now No Fears of Star Chamber Justice': The Decline of the Jury in Nova Scotia
  • 8. 'The Day Has Gone By for the Worship of Legal Idols': The Decline of the Jury in Ontario
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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