Speaking in Court

Chapter 1 Introduction and Structure

Chapter 2 Distinguished Advocates, Judges, Classical Learning and Other Influences on Advocacy in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 3 Prohibition Against Counsel in Felony Trials and the Consequences of its Erosion

Chapter 4 Victorian Advocacy: Emotion, Melodrama, Floridity and Juries

Chapter 5 Signs of Changes in Styles Before Juries

Chapter 6 Decline of Jury Trials in the Civil and Criminal Courts and Other Key Developments

Chapter 7 The Late Nineteenth Century and the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Chapter 8 A Spectacular Quartet of Leading Barristers

Chapter 9 The Silent Revolution in Methods of Advocacy

Chapter 10 Changes and Influences on Jury Advocacy in England and Wales During the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Chapter 11 Developments in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Influencing Advocacy in the Civil Courts

Chapter 12 The Teaching of Advocacy: An Important Influence

Chapter 14 Developments with Consequences for Advocacy

Chapter 15 Some Conclusions