Legal-Lay Discourse and Procedural Justice in Family and County Courts

Tatiana Grieshofer (Birmingham City University)

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English

Cambridge University Press
18 April 2024

Semantics; Law & society; Courts & procedure; Civil procedure, litigation & dispute resolution; Constitutional & administrative law

Series: Elements in Forensic Linguistics

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 when it comes to legal–lay communication. Drawing on court observations, alongside textual and interview data, the Element pursues three aims: (1) developing the methodological and theoretical framework for exploring discursive practices in legal settings; (2) establishing the link between legal–lay discourse and procedural justice; (3) presenting and contextualising linguistic phenomena as an inherent part of court research and practice. The Element illustrates how linguistic input can contribute to procedural changes and court reforms across different adversarial and non-adversarial legal settings. The exploration of discursive practices embedded in court processes and procedures consolidates and advances the existing court research conducted within the fields of socio-legal studies and forensic and legal linguistics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

By: Tatiana Grieshofer (Birmingham City University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 262g
ISBN: 9781009486927
ISBN 10: 1009486926
Series: Elements in Forensic Linguistics
Pages: 86
Publication Date: 18 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Preface; Author Preface: For Forensic Linguists; Author Preface: for Legal Scholars; 1 Introduction; 2. Legal-lay discourse; 3. Discourse of civil and family proceedings; 4. Discursive practices, procedural justice and legal participation; 5. Language data and empirical methods; 6. Discursive practices in child arrangements proceedings; 7. Discursive practices in financial remedy proceedings; 8. Discursive practices in county courts; 9. Concluding thoughts and future directions; Appendix; Bibliography.