Evidence
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Evidence
(Butterworths core text series / series editor Nicola Padfield, Bd. 2)
Butterworths, c2003
2nd ed.
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book looks at all the major topics within the Law of Evidence. As well as such basic concerns as relevance and the court's discretion to exclude technically admissible evidence, these topics include the burden of proof and presumptions, the course of the trial, the competence and compellability of witnesses, the opinion rule, the rule against hearsay, the law governing the admissibility of confessions and the rules affecting the so-called right of silence, in addition to the various principles that regulate the admission of character evidence.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Relevance and admissibility of evidence
- 2. Presumptions and the burden of proof
- 3. Witnesses: competence, compellability and various privileges
- 4. The course of the trial
- 5. Previous consistent statements and the rule against narrative
- 6. Character and credibility
- 7. Similar fact evidence
- 8. The Criminal Evidence Act 1898
- 9. The opinion rule and the presentation of expert evidence
- 10. The rule against hearsay
- 11. Confessions
- 12. Drawing adverse inferences from a defendant's silence, lies or false alibis
- 13. Identification evidence
- 14. Documents
- Index
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