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Evidence
By
Roderick Munday
Description
* A succint and easily-digested
introduction, this is the ideal text for those who may find evidence
a slightly forbidding subject
* Though concise, this book also
offers probing discussion of topical or complex areas, ensuring it
remains a stimulating companion to a course of study
* The author\\\'s engaging style of
writing maintains the readability of the text, even when addressing
potentially complicated issues
* Each chapter begins with a useful
summary of its contents, enabling easy navigation of the text, and
ends with self-test questions to stimulate analysis of each topic
New to this edition
* Revised to fully account for
developments in the law, including the implications of full enactment
of the Criminal Justice Act 2003
* Revamped text and cover design,
alongside the other books in the Core Text series
* Updated section on DNA evidence,
to ensure up-to-date coverage of the technology and methods of this
increasingly important area of law
Munday\\\'s Evidence provides students
with a succinct yet thought-provoking introduction to all of the key
areas covered on undergraduate law of evidence courses. Clear and
engagingly written, this book sets out to demystify a traditionally
intimidating area of law. Probing analysis of the issues, both
perennial and topical, ensures that this text contains a thorough
exploration of the \\\'core\\\' of the subject.
In addition to covering all the major
topics within the law of evidence, this book examines key concepts
such as relevance and the court\\\'s discretion to exclude technically
admissible evidence. This edition has been carefully and
comprehensively updated to include all vital new developments in the
law of evidence, in particular extensive consideration of the full
ramifications of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
This lively, sometimes critical, and
often entertaining text offers clear guidance to any student who may
find evidence a slightly forbidding subject, and enough analysis to
challenge those who wish to explore further.
Readership: Undergraduates,
postgraduates, students on vocational programmes taking courses in
evidence, practitioners.
Contents
1. Relevance and admissibility of
evidence
2. Presumption and the burden of proof
3. Witnesses: competence,
compellability and various privileges
4. The course of the trial
5. Witnesses\\\' previous consistent
statements and the remnants of the rules against narrative
6. Character and credibility
7. Evidence of the defendant\\\'s bad
character
8. The Opinion Rule and the
presentation of expert evidence
9. The rule against hearsay
10. Confessions
11. Drawing adverse inferences from a
defendants omissions, lies or false alibis
12. Identification evidence
13. Documents
Authors, editors, and contributors
Roderick Munday, Reader in Law,
University of Cambridge
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