"Good" and "Poor" Lawyering in Continental Law: the Criminal Defence Lawyer in Greece as a Case Study

Tools

Giannoulopoulos, Dimitrios. 2025. "Good" and "Poor" Lawyering in Continental Law: the Criminal Defence Lawyer in Greece as a Case Study. In: Ashlee Beazley; Michele Panzavolta and Andrew Sanders, eds. Poor Defence Lawyering in Criminal Proceedings: A Comparative View. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 56-81. ISBN 9781032537467 [Book Section]

No full text available

Text
Ch. 4_Giannoulopoulos D._‘Good’ and ‘Poor’ Lawyering in Continental Law_.pdf - Accepted Version
Permissions: Administrator Access Only until 31 January 2027.
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives.
Download (354kB)

Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/Poor-Defence-Lawyering-i...

Abstract or Description

This chapter offers a legal cosmopolitan perspective into ‘good’ and ‘poor’ lawyering, by taking the continental legal system of Greece as a case study. The concepts of ‘good’ and ‘poor’ quality criminal defence practice are examined from the dual vista of the broader role of defence lawyers in criminal proceedings in Greece and their effective participation in custodial interrogation in practice. The former vista sheds light on the centrality of criminal defence lawyers in the criminal process, from a historic, institutional, cultural and contemporary procedural perspective, which then makes obvious the extent to which ‘good’ and ‘poor’ quality criminal defence practice can influence the criminal process and its outcomes. It also allows a reflection on potential denominators of ‘good’ and ‘poor’ quality criminal defence practice: competence, experience, manoeuvrability, empathy and even prestige, reputation and charisma in this way emerge as endogenous to how we visualise ‘good’ lawyering in Greece, while disconcerting examples of ‘poor’ quality criminal defence services can be observed to underpin entire areas of procedural and institutional practice such as in relation to legal aid or the postponement of criminal trials.

Item Type:

Book Section

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003430872

Additional Information:

“This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Poor Defence Lawyering in Criminal Proceedings: A Comparative View on 31 July 2025, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Poor-Defence-Lawyering-in-Criminal-Proceedings-A-Comparative-View/Beazley-Panzavolta-Sanders/p/book/9781032537467. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.”

Keywords:

criminal procedure, comparative law

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Law

Dates: