Adversarial Case-Making

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Copyright

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Contents

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List of Figures

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Foreword

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Introduction

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On field access

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1st phase of gaining access: in the criminal court

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2nd phase: accessing preparation

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Rendering case-making observable

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De-centring social situations

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Complexities

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Tracing case-making

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Towards the systematics of case-making

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The specificity of the database

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Outlook

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I. A case of assault: the rise and fall of an alibi

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The ontological versions of the alibi-story and its analysability

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Where to start and how to follow

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The rise of the alibi

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Entering the career path

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Aiming for one (single) Notice of Alibi

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The story in the “Instructions to Counsel”

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The story in the “draft statement” of the alibi witness

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Intermezzo

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The story’s decline

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Seeking and missing support

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The loss of the alibi in open court

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Towards the duality of mobilisation

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II. Framing law-in-action

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Where and when is the field?

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Event and process in Social Theory

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A heuristic pair of concepts

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The common alternative: action and context

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Beyond action and context

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Eventful process, processed events

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Event and process coincide

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Process without events

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Processual events

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Weighing event and process

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Early and late events

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Relevant and irrelevant events

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Outlook: the adversarial procedure as eventful process

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III. A case of indecent assault: fitting sleep-walking expertise in

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Interrogating a single case

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Expert evidence in criminal proceedings

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Sleep-walking expertise and its relevant other knowledges

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Expert evidence and the certified facts

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Expert evidence and the instructed case

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Expert evidence and its opposite number

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Expert evidence and the common sense

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Discussion: Distributed knowing and judicial decision-making

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IV. File-work and procedural care

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Styles of file-work in a criminal law firm

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The instrumentalist style: advocacy as paperwork

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The humanist style: advocacy by dialogue

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Good reasons for different styles of file-work

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Case-specific advocacy

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Gendered advocacy

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Advocacy and professional habitué

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Conclusion: legal care in context

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V. A case of wounding with intent: the barrister’s day in court

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Before trial

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Marking the brief

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Taking instructions from the client

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Pinpointing the prosecution case

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A prospective mapping of the case

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Final adjustments between the adversaries

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The barrister’s work during trial

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What the barrister does not note down whatsoever

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Excerpting modules from oral testimonies

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Modulating the cross-examination

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Interim results

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Managing the friendly examination

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The closing speech

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Drafting the speech

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Delivering the speech

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Conclusion: the minutiae of case-representation

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VI. Procedural resources and procedural infrastructure

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The court

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The file

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The story

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Towards procedural infrastructure

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VII. A case of murder: no regret!

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Direct and indirect moralising

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Towards a procedural style of moralising

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An extreme case-study

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The moralising sites in a Crown Court case

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Minimalist moralising: silencing the defendant in the sentencing hearing

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Moralising outsourced: talking about guilt with psychological experts

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In-house moralising: the lawyer-client relationship

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Discussion: characteristics and rationale of indirect moralising

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VIII. The case in the case-system

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The case as tripartite sign

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Case, fact-sensitive

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Case, ruled and ruling

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Case, decision-oriented

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The archive of the case-system

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Off the case: components in isolation

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Conclusion: the micro-foundations of adversarialism

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Mechanisms of case-making

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Complexities of case-making

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Epilogue

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References

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Index

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