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The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story Of The Man Who Sent Charles I To The Scaffold.Stock informationGeneral Fields
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Local Description2005, First edition, first printing. A very good copy with light rubbing to the spine ends and uniform page tanning. The d/w is near fine with only light bumping to the head of the spine. DescriptionCharles 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 claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke, whose Puritan conscience, political vision, and love of civil liberties gave him the courage to bring the king to trial. As a result, Charles I was beheaded, but eleven years later Cooke himself was arrested, tried, and executed at the hands of Charles II. Promotion infoGeoffrey 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 will try 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: they live with their two children in London.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. ReviewsPraise from the United Kingdom for Author descriptionGeoffrey Robertson QC is an Australian born radical lawyer. He went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and has lived in England ever since. He is Master of the Middle Temple and a Recorder (a part-time judge), and was recently appointed by the United Nations as an Appeal Judge for its war crimes court in Sierra Leone. He has written and presented TV programmes in Australia. His previous books include the acclaimed memoir The Justice Game (Vintage), and Crimes Against Humanity - The Struggle for Global Justice (Penguin). He is married to the author Kathy Lette. |