Legal-Lay Discourse and Procedural Justice in Family and County Courts

"Focusing on adversarial legal settings, this Element explores discursive practices in court proceedings which often involve unrepresented parties - private family proceedings and small claims cases. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--

List of contents

Series Preface; Author Preface: For Forensic Linguists; Author Preface: for Legal Scholars; 1 Introduction; 2. Legal-lay discourse; 3. Discourse of civil and family proceedings; 4. Discursive practices, procedural justice and legal participation; 5. Language data and empirical methods; 6. Discursive practices in child arrangements proceedings; 7. Discursive practices in financial remedy proceedings; 8. Discursive practices in county courts; 9. Concluding thoughts and future directions; Appendix; Bibliography.

Summary

Focusing on adversarial legal settings, this Element explores discursive practices in court proceedings which often involve unrepresented parties – private family proceedings and small claims cases. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Foreword

Focusing on family and county courts, the Element identifies how court processes impact legal-lay communication and proposes procedural changes.

Product details

• Authors: Tatiana Grieshofer, Tatiana (Birmingham City University) Grieshofer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2024
• EAN: 9781009486927
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0948692-7
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Forensic Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Public Law, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions, Law & society, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Law and society, sociology of law, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Civil procedure, litigation & dispute resolution