Full Description
This book will assist those students wishing to revise particular topics within evidence law and demonstrates how to write good answers to questions in examinations. It will prove especially helpful for revision as it emphasises those aspects of each topic which are of key importance, which otherwise may be obscured behind a mass of detail. The book advocates a practical approach to examination questions that requires students to think as carefully about facts as about law. This new edition reflects the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on reverse burdens of proof, improperly obtained evidence, and on s 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999. QA Evidence will be invaluable to all undergraduate students of the law of evidence.
Contents
Burden and Standard of Proof; Presumptions,Competence and Compellability; Hearsay: The Scope of the Rule; Hearsay Exceptions; Hazardous Evidence; Confessions and Ill-Gotten Evidence; Similar Fact Evidence; The Character of the Accused; The Course of Testimony; Opinion Evidence; Privilege and Public Policy.
