The Analysis of Legal Cases a Narrative Approach

This book explores the role that narrative and culture play in shaping legal cases and resolving them. It is divided into two parts. The first part recalls the epistemological twists and turns in legal thought on the way from theory to practice to show how facts are constructed in the legal process. By combining interdisciplinary paradigms and methods, the work analyzes the evolution of facts from their expression by the client to their translation into the lawyer-client relationship and the subsequent decision of the judge, focusing on the dynamic activity of narrative construction between the key actors: client, lawyer and judge. The second part broadens the academic framework with a legal and cultural perspective and illustrates how legal histories emerge within the framework of the authentic dimensions of everyday life. The book focuses on the ability of laymen, who are equated with clients in this activity, to shape the law by dealing not only with formal rules, but also with implicit or customary rules in certain contexts. By integrating the presentation of vulnerable client cases, it lays the foundations for the development of a socio-clinical research program aimed, among other things, at enabling lay people and expert actors to meet to improve forms of collective storytelling and create fairer legal systems. Flora Di Donato is Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy at the Federico II University of Naples, where she teaches Clinical Legal Training (Formazione Clinico-Legale). His research focuses on the analysis of law in real life and the contribution of laymen to the construction of the meanings of law.

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Each country in the study is the subject of a separate chapter describing and analysing laws, institutions, processes, practices and attitudes relating to effective criminal defence, concluding with recommendations to improve access to an effective defence as an essential element of the right to a fair trial. The data from the five countries will then be subject to a transnational analysis of compliance with European standards, including, where appropriate, a reference to the results of the initial study of nine countries. Section III – Improving Justice for Vulnerable Persons. VitalSource is an academic technology provider that allows Routledge.com customers to access its free bookshelf e-book reader. Most of our eBooks are sold as ePubs and can be read in the Bookshelf app. The app gives readers the freedom to access their documents anytime, anywhere, by adjusting settings like text size, font, page color, and more. To learn more about our eBooks, visit the following links: Download the free Kindle app and instantly read Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer – no Kindle device required. Read more Immigration and refugee law in Russia. Perspectives on social law. 9 Cooperative legal advice with vulnerable clients: asylum.