Legal-lay discourse and procedural justice in family and county courts /

Focusing on adversarial legal settings, this Element explores discursive practices in court proceedings which often involve unrepresented parties - private family proceedings and small claims cases. Such proceedings present the main caseload of county and family courts, but pose immense challenges w...

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Autor principal: Grieshofer, Tatiana (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Col·lecció:Cambridge elements. Elements in forensic linguistics,
Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009378031
Taula de continguts:
  • Legal-lay discourse
  • Discourse of civil and family proceedings
  • Discursive practices, procedural justice, and legal participation
  • Language data and empirical methods
  • Discursive practices in child arrangements proceedings
  • Discursive practices in financial remedy proceedings
  • Discursive practices in county courts
  • Concluding thoughts and future directions.