Ergebnis für "Jack" in Recht & Gesetz

The “gripping” (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past—from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer. “Compulsively...

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. They are sometimes funny, often moving and ultimately life-changing. How can you defend a child abuser you suspect to be guilty? What do you say to someone sentenced to ten years whom you believe to be innocent? What is the law, and why do we need it? And why do they wear those stupid wigs?

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people? Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we...

VEM FAN ÄR DU? skildrar Peter Althins resa från uppväxten och ungdomsåren i Lund till livet som en av Sveriges mest omskrivna och anlitade brottmålsadvokater. Vi får följa några av vår tids mest uppmärksammade rättegångar och ta del av kampen för rättvisa i såväl domstolar som i den kriminalpolitiska debatten. Men här finns också en annan och hittills okänd kamp. I boken berättas hur den framgångsrika advokatens rädsla för att misslyckas blev så stark att den fick honom att avsluta sin karriär.

Two murder trials were held in Toronto in the spring of 1962, only 19 days apart. The accused man in each trial, one a pimp accused of stabbing a fellow pimp to death, the other a thief who killed a policeman in a shootout, were the last two men to be hanged in Canada. Toronto criminal lawyer Ross Mackay was the counsel for the accused in both trials, a mere 30 years old when he lost them both to the gallows. But the trials were far from the last times that Mackay defended accused murderers in the most horrendous circumstances.