Harris Hints on Advocacy

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Description
The first edition of this work appeared so long ago as 1879, and in the succeeding editions down to the seventeenth the text has remained substantially as the author wrote it. The immense popularity of this handbook for advocates is no accident, for Richard Harris combined an exhaustive knowledge of the standard works on advocacy with very extensive appreciation of its practical application. Lapse of time, however, has brought about a change, not only in those who to-day require instruction in advocacy, but also to some extent in the social conditions of those with whom the advocate comes in contact, whether as parties to an action, as defendants in criminal prosecutions, as witnesses or as jurors. It has been the desire of the present editor to preserve substantially unaltered as much of the original text as was possible, having these changed conditions in mind. and it will therefore be found that apart from the two opening chapters which are new, and some rearrangement of the later chapters, the modifications in the text which he has attempted are as few as the practice of modern advocacy justifies, and he is by no means unaware of the presumption which is involved in any attempt, however well-intentioned, to adapt the style of a writer as individual as Richard Harris was.

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Contents
1. The Nature of Advocacy
2. Preliminary Matters
3. Opening the Plaintiff's Case
4. Examination-in-Chief   
5. Cross-Examination
     Some Rules for Cross-Examination
    An Injudicious Cross-Examination
6. Classes of Witnesses, with Suggestions for Cross-examining them
     1.    The Lying Witness
     2.    The Flippant  Witness
     3.    The Dogged Witness
     4.    The Hesitating Witness
     5.    The Nervous Witness
     6.    The Humorous Witness
     7.    The Cunning Witness
     8.    The Hypocrite
     9.    The Witness Partly True and Partly False
    10.  The Positive Witness
    11.  The Stupid Witness
    12.  The Semi-Professional  Witness
    13.  The Polio- Constable
    14.  The Truthful Witness       
    15.  The Medical Witness
    16.  The Awkward Witness
    17.  The Convict
    18.  The Private Detective
    19.  The Expert in Handwriting
7. A False Alibi, and as to the Mode of Dealing With it
8. Re-Examination
9. Opening the Defendant's Case
10. Summing-Up the Defendant's Case
11. Reply
12. Conduct of A Pbosecution
13. Analysis of the Opening Speech in the trial of Palmer
14. Conduct of a Defence in a Criminal Trial
15. Illustrative Cases —
      1.    The Postman's Case
       2.    The Policeman's Case
       3.    The Bookbinder's Case
       4.    An Important Question in a Murder Case
       5.    A  Horse-Stealing Case
       6.    An Action for Malicious Prosecution
      16 - Tactics
Index
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Author Details
George W. Keeton, M.A., LL.D., Barrister-Law, Professor of English Law and Dean of the faculties of Laws in the university of London and at university collage, London
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