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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: William Garrow, Chris Thomas, Mick Underwood, John Page, David Halfyard, Kirk Windstein, Richard Hayward, Neil Fusedale, William Gouge, Alan Shirreff, Gregory H. Johnson, Edward Buckland, Alexander Morten, Jeremy Black, Eusebius Andrews, Dennis Baldry, George Blackwell, William S. Godbe, William Crossman, Brian Hanrahan, Christopher Trembath, Sandra Ramdhanie, Arthur Judd, James Robertson, Paul Garlick, John Monckton, Anthony Marshall, Ernest Smythe, Hugh Bateman-Champain, Geoffrey Hebden, Robert Caple, Rex Gautrey, Gordon Collins, Dominic Ralfs, Anthony Denness, William Lautour, Alan Rayment, Nigel Maddox, George Jupp, Evelyn Sharp, Baroness Sharp, Albert Ward, Robert James, George Bradbury, George Trebeck, Thomas Wood, Thomas Ellis Owen, William Wriothesley. Excerpt: Sir William Garrow, KC, SL, PC, FRS (13 April 1760 - 24 September 1840) was a British barrister, politician and judge known for his indirect reform of the advocacy system, which helped usher in the adversarial court system used in most common law nations today. He introduced the phrase "innocent until proven guilty," insisting that defendants' accusers and their evidence be thoroughly tested in court. Born to a priest and his wife in Monken Hadley, then in Middlesex, Garrow was educated at his father's school in the village before being apprenticed to Thomas Southouse, an attorney in Cheapside, which preceded a pupillage with a Mr. Crompton, a special pleader. Garrow studied the law hard, viewing cases at the Old Bailey, and as a result Crompton recommended that he become a solicitor or barrister. Garrow joined Lincoln's Inn in November 1778, and was called to the Bar on 27 November 1783. He quickly established a reputation as a criminal law barrister, particularly for the defendants, and in February 1793 was made a King's Counsel by HM Government to ...
