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THE MYSTERY OF OLD BAILEY COUNSEL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

T.P. Gallanis
Affiliation:
Washington and Lee University.
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Abstract

This article proffers a hypothesis about a persistent historical mystery: Why did the use of defence lawyers in felony trials at the Old Bailey increase so noticeably in the last quarter of the eighteenth century?

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Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 2006

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