ON ADVOCACY (USEFUL FOR PRACTICE IN ANY OF THE COURTS), WITH SUGGESTIONS AS TO OPENING THE PLAINTIFF'S CASE, RE-EXAMINATION OPENING AND SUMMING-UP THE DEFENDANT'S CASE. REPLY. CONDUCT OF A PROSECUTION AND DEFENCE IN WITH ILLUSTRATIVE CASES THAT HAVE OCCURRED; IN THE PROSECUTION OF PALMER, A WORD ON THE APPOINTMENT OF A PUBLIC AND THE UTILITY OF THE GRAND JURY. BY RICHARD HARRIS, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, Of the Middle Temple and Midland Circuit. FOURTH BIBLIOTHECA EDITIO MAR 1881 (FURTHER REVISED AND ENLARGED.) LONDON: WATERLOW BROS. & LAYTON, 24, BIRCHIN LANE, E.C. 1880. BODLEIANA A HINT TO MY AMERICAN COUSINS AND BROTHERS-IN-LAW. WHILE Confessing to a feeling of gratification that my work has been deemed worthy of reproduction in the United States, I cannot help thinking that the courtesy of a formal acknowledgment would have enhanced the compliment.-(See Review of American Edition, page 369). LAMB BUILDING, TEMPLE, LONDON, June 1st, 1880. RICHARD HARRIS. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THERE is no SCHOOL OF ADVOCACY: there are no LECTURES ON ADVOCACY; and so far as I have been able to ascertain, there is no book on the subject. The newly-called Barrister has to find his way as he best can, very often to the sacrifice of important interests and many unfortunate clients. As he has never learnt anything of the Art of Advocacy, he is no more fitted for the task of advocating their rights than the clients themselves, except in so far as his knowledge of law will assist him in the purely legal aspects of the question. It seems to me lamentable that no instruction should ever be given in an art which requires an almost infinite amount of knowlege. Tact cannot be taught, but it will follow from experience, and a good deal of experience may be condensed into the form of rules. "I never felt so much in want of a leader as I did when I had to cross-examine that doctor," |