A Trying Question: The Jury in Nineteenth-Century Canada

by R. Blake Brown

The jury, a central institution of the trial process, exemplifies in popular perception the distinctiveness of our legal tradition. Nevertheless, juries today try only a small minority of cases. A Trying Question traces the history of the jury in Canada and links its nineteenth-century decline to the rise of the professional class.

R. Blake Brown shows that juries could be controversial, as they could be stacked and were often considered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442640383
• ISBN13: 9781442640382
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher