Legal-lay communication : Textual travels in the law / edited by Chris Heffer, Frances Rock, and John Conley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Textual travel in legal-lay communication / Frances Rock, Chris Heffer and John Conley -- The transformation of discourse in emergency calls to the police / Mark Garner and Edward Johnson -- From legislation to the courts : providing safe passage for legal texts through the challenges of a police interview / Georgina Heydon -- 'Every link in the chain' : the police interview as textual intersection / Frances Rock -- Theatrics in the courtroom : the intertextual construction of legal cases / Katrijn Maryns -- Travels of a suspect's statement / Martha Komter -- Embedding police interviews in the prosecution case in the Shipman trial / Alison Johnson -- Tracing the crime narratives within the Palmer trial (1856) : from the lawyer's opening speeches to the judge's summing up / Dawn Archer -- Post-penetration rape and the decontextualization of witness testimony / Susan Ehrlich -- Communication and magic : authorized voice, legal-linguistic habitus and the recontextualization of "beyond reasonable doubt" / Chris Heffer -- Troubling the legal-lay distinction : litigant briefs, oral argument, and a public hearing about same-sex marriage / Karen Tracy and Erica Delgadillo -- The discourse of DNA : giving informed consent to genetic research / John Conley, Jean Cadigan, Arlene Davis, Allison Dobson, Erin Edwards, Wendell Fortson and Robert Mitchell -- Travelling texts : the legal-lay interface in the highway code / Bethan Davies -- Recalling rape : moving beyond what we know / Shonna Trinch.