Traditionally under the English legal system, prisoners charged with felonies had been denied the right to legal representation on the grounds that such assistance was superfluous, perhaps even harmful to the cause of justice.[1]
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(2017) 40(2) UNSWLJ 638: https://doi.org/10.53637/MQJI3991
- John H Langbein, The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (Oxford University Press, 2005) 33–6; David J A Cairns, Advocacy and the Making of the Adversarial Criminal Trial 1800–1865 (Oxford University Press, 1999) 4.