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25%OFFGeoffrey Robertson - The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold - 9780099459194 - V9780099459194
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The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold

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Description for The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold paperback. Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. 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. He was the bravest of barristers, who risked his own life to make tyranny a crime. Num Pages: 448 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; BGH; BGR; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 334.

Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. 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. Cromwell appointed him as a reforming Chief Justice in Ireland, but in 1660 he was dragged back to the Old Bailey, tried and brutally executed.

John Cooke was the bravest of barristers, who risked his own life to make tyranny a crime. He originated the right to silence, the 'cab rank' rule of advocacy and the duty to act free-of-charge for the poor. He conducted the first trial of a Head of State for waging war on his own people - a forerunner of the prosecutions of Pinochet, Miloševic and Saddam Hussein, and a lasting inspiration to the modern world.

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
335g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099459194
SKU
V9780099459194
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About Geoffrey Robertson
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.

Reviews for The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold
Redeems from obscurity an unsung hero of true greatness... Sheds invigorating light on the course of the English civil war
Spectator
Robertson has come up with that desperately rare thing: a subject worthy of biography who has never before been addressed and, to his huge advantage, in his field. The result is a work of literary advocacy as elegant, impassioned and original as any the author can ever have laid before a court
Anthony Holden
Observer
Robertson tells a spellbinding story. He combines lucid analysis of the legal issues with acute understanding of the various factions. His prose is crisp and he inserts some comments that only a professional advocate, as opposed to an academic historian, would make
Christopher Silvester
Daily Telegraph
Fascinating... Illuminating... This is a work of great compassion and, at a time when it seems to be fashionable for politicians to denigrate lawyers, it is an essential read for anyone who believes in the fearless independence of the law
John Cooper
The Times
[Robertson's] forensic intelligence can penetrate where professional historians have not reached
Blair Worden
Literary Review

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