The Tyrannical Brief

Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Robertson QC is a leading human rights lawyer and a UN war-crimes judge. He has been counsel in many notable Old Bailey trials, has defended hundreds of men facing death sentences in the Caribbean, and has won landmark rulings on civil liberty from the highest courts in Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth. He was involved in cases against General Pinochet and Hastings Banda, and in the training of judges who tried Saddam Hussein. His book Crimes against Humanity has been an inspiration for the global justice movement, and he is the author of an acclaimed memoir, The Justice Game , and the textbook Media Law . He is married to Kathy Lette. Mr Robertson is Head of Doughty Street Chambers, a Master of the Middle Temple, a Recorder and visiting professor at Queen Mary College, University of London. Klappentext But in 1649 parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law: in the end the man they briefed was the radical barrister, John Cooke. Cooke was a plebeian, son of a poor farmer, but he had the courage to bring the King's trial to its dramatic conclusion: the English republic. Zusammenfassung But in 1649 parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law: in the end the man they briefed was the radical barrister, John Cooke. Cooke was a plebeian, son of a poor farmer, but he had the courage to bring the King's trial to its dramatic conclusion: the English republic.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Robertson, Robertson Geoffrey
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.10.2006
• EAN: 9780099459194
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945919-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; European History, LAW / General, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance