View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Research Repository and Portal - University of the West of Scotland UWS Academic Portal The Florence Maybrick trial of 1889 and the need for courts of criminal appeal James, Kieran Published in: International Journal of Critical Accounting DOI: 10.1504/IJCA.2017.084898 Published: 22/06/2017 Document Version Peer reviewed version Link to publication on the UWS Academic Portal Citation for published version (APA): James, K. (2017). The Florence Maybrick trial of 1889 and the need for courts of criminal appeal. International Journal of Critical Accounting, 9(2), 85-102. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCA.2017.084898 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the UWS Academic Portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact
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[email protected] Abstract The criminal trial of Mrs Florence Maybrick, held in Liverpool, England during the height of the British Empire 1889, is widely regarded as one of the greatest travesties of justice in British legal history where even the judge at the end of the trial remarked “well, they can’t convict her on that evidence” and the chief prosecutor nodded his head in agreement.