Essays For Colin Tapper

by Mirfield, Peter; Smith, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780406964397
• ISBN10: 0406964394
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

With many other distinguished scholars, contributions would inevitably gather closely around a particular branch of the law. It is a mark of the range of Colin Tapper's scholarship that these essays span evidence, intellectual property, computer law and computer applications.

Table of Contents

Foreword by the Rt Hon Lord Hoffmann	v
Foreword by Sir Guenter Treitel	vii
Preface	ix
Table of statutes	xv
Table of European legislation	xvii
Table of foreign legislation	xix
Table of cases	xxi
Silence, lies and vicious circularity	1	(20)
by Katharine Grevling
Approaches to similar fact evidence: England and Australia	21	(27)
by CR Williams
Implications of the human right rationale for legal professional privilege - the demise of implied statutory abrogation?	48	(25)
by Sue McNicol
Legal proof of knowledge	73	(18)
by Roderick Bagshaw
Empirical evaluation of the hearsay rule	91	(16)
by Roger C Park
Exploring the integrity principle in evidence and procedure	107	(19)
by Andrew Ashworth
Silence, innocence and human rights	126	(21)
by Peter Mirfield
The policies of legal information services: a perspective of three decades	147	(12)
by Jon Bing
Information technology and the criminal justice system	159	(23)
by Richard Susskind
Defining and rewarding invention: a review and a modest proposal for patent law	182	(18)
by David Vaver
Cumulation and convergence of intellectual property rights	200	(11)
by William Cornish
Works by Colin Tapper	211	(8)
Index	219