Evidence

by Munday, Roderick; Padfield, Nicola

• ISBN13: 9780406964038
• ISBN10: 0406964033
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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

Relevance and admissibility of evidence

Presumptions and the burden of proof

Witnesses: competence, compellability and various privileges

The course of the trial

Previous consistent statements and the rule against narrative

Character and credibility

Similar fact evidence

The Criminal Evidence Act 1898

The opinion rule and the presentation of expert evidence

The rule against hearsay

Confessions

Drawing adverse inferences from a defendant's silence, lies or false alibis

Identification evidence

Documents

Index

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