{"product_id":"2940015708875","title":"THE ART OF CROSS-EXAMINATION","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER                                                PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I. INTRODUCTORY                                       11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    II. THE MANNER OF CROSS-EXAMINATION                    21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   III. THE MATTER OF CROSS-EXAMINATION                    37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IV. CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THE PERJURED WITNESS          55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     V. CROSS-EXAMINATION OF EXPERTS                       79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VI. THE SEQUENCE OF CROSS-EXAMINATION                 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VII. SILENT CROSS-EXAMINATION                          111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VIII. CROSS-EXAMINATION TO CREDIT, AND ITS ABUSES       119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IX. GOLDEN RULES FOR EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES         133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     X. SOME FAMOUS CROSS-EXAMINERS AND THEIR METHODS     143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XI. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RICHARD PIGOTT\u003cbr\u003e            BEFORE THE PARNELL COMMISSION                 173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XII. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF DR. ---- IN THE\u003cbr\u003e            CARLYLE W. HARRIS CASE                        195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIII. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THOMAS J. MINNOCK\u003cbr\u003e            IN THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CASE                 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XIV. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF JEREMIAH SMITH\u003cbr\u003e            IN THE WILLIAM PALMER CASE                    247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XV. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RUSSELL SAGE IN\u003cbr\u003e            THE LAIDLAW-SAGE CASE                         267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTORY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The issue of a cause rarely depends upon a speech and is but seldom\u003cbr\u003eeven affected by it. But there is never a cause contested, the result of\u003cbr\u003ewhich is not mainly dependent upon the skill with which the advocate\u003cbr\u003econducts his cross-examination.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the conclusion arrived at by one of England's greatest advocates\u003cbr\u003eat the close of a long and eventful career at the Bar. It was written\u003cbr\u003esome fifty years ago and at a time when oratory in public trials was at\u003cbr\u003eits height. It is even more true at the present time, when what was once\u003cbr\u003ecommonly reputed a \"great speech\" is seldom heard in our\u003cbr\u003ecourts,--because the modern methods of practising our profession have\u003cbr\u003ehad a tendency to discourage court oratory and the development of\u003cbr\u003eorators. The old-fashioned orators who were wont to \"grasp the\u003cbr\u003ethunderbolt\" are now less in favor than formerly. With our modern\u003cbr\u003ejurymen the arts of oratory,--\"law-papers on fire,\" as Lord Brougham's\u003cbr\u003espeeches used to be called,--though still enjoyed as impassioned\u003cbr\u003eliterary efforts, have become almost useless as persuasive arguments or\u003cbr\u003eas a \"summing up\" as they are now called.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModern juries, especially in large cities, are composed of practical\u003cbr\u003ebusiness men accustomed to think for themselves, experienced in the ways\u003cbr\u003eof life, capable of forming estimates and making nice distinctions,\u003cbr\u003eunmoved by the passions and prejudices to which court oratory is nearly\u003cbr\u003ealways directed. Nowadays, jurymen, as a rule, are wont to bestow upon\u003cbr\u003etestimony the most intelligent and painstaking attention, and have a\u003cbr\u003ekeen scent for truth. It is not intended to maintain that juries are no\u003cbr\u003elonger human, or that in certain cases they do not still go widely\u003cbr\u003eastray, led on by their prejudices if not by their passions.\u003cbr\u003eNevertheless, in the vast majority of trials, the modern juryman, and\u003cbr\u003eespecially the modern city juryman,--it is in our large cities that the\u003cbr\u003egreatest number of litigated cases is tried,--comes as near being the\u003cbr\u003emodel arbiter of fact as the most optimistic champion of the institution\u003cbr\u003eof trial by jury could desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am aware that many members of my profession still sneer at trial by\u003cbr\u003ejury. Such men, however,--when not among the unsuccessful and\u003cbr\u003edisgruntled,--will, with but few exceptions, be found to have had but\u003cbr\u003elittle practice themselves in court, or else to belong to that ever\u003cbr\u003egrowing class in our profession who have relinquished their court\u003cbr\u003epractice and are building up fortunes such as were never dreamed of in\u003cbr\u003ethe legal profession a decade ago, by becoming what may be styled\u003cbr\u003ebusiness lawyers--men who are learned in the law as a profession, but\u003cbr\u003ewho through opportunity, combined with rare commercial ability, have\u003cbr\u003ecome to apply their learning--especially their knowledge of corporate\u003cbr\u003elaw--to great commercial enterprises, combinations, organizations, and\u003cbr\u003ereorganizations, and have thus come to practise law as a business.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147841814768,"sku":"2940015708875","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015708875","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}