Author: Meyer, Phil

Source: Journal of Law and Society, Volume 28, Number 1, March 2001 , pp. 133-146(14)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:

This essay is concerned to note the way in which successful trial advocacy seems to stem from the ability to convert legal discourse into a story form. These stories need to be ones with which a jury is familiar. These increasingly come from visual media, particularly film. It looks in detail at one trial where this process of relating a defence to the jury employed the structure of a Mafia film. The essay concludes by examining the reasons why the nature of the novel differs significantly from that of the film and how in the novel-to-film adaptation process a certain simplification is bound to occur.

Document Type: Original article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-6478.00183

Publication date: 2001-03-01

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