Rethinking evidence : exploratory essays
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Rethinking evidence : exploratory essays
B. Blackwell, 1990
- : u.s.
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Bibliography: p. [373]-391
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Evidence and proof, narrative and reasoning in legal discourse and the reform of criminal evidence have been the subject of much debate in recent years. This book offers an alternative approach to the rationalist tradition from three perspectives - the historical, the analytical and the applied. The essays are linked and each examines a particular topic in detail. The author has attempted to suggest ideas for further research, and to propose connections between areas in the hope of helping students and theorists to find new perspectives on familiar subjects.
Table of Contents
- Taking facts seriously
- the rationalist tradition of evidence scholarship
- some scepticism about scepticisms
- identification and misidentification - redefining the problem
- what is the law of evidence
- lawyers' stories
- anatomy of a cause celebre - the case of Edith Thompson
- Thompson and Wigmore - fresh evidence and new perspectives
- the way of the baffled medic - prescribe now, diagnose later, if at all
- rethinking evidence.
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