The Law of Criminal and Civil Evidence

Subjects:
Evidence

ISBN13: 9780582437203
ISBN: 0582437202
Published: June 2002
Publisher: Pearson Education Ltd
Country of Publication: UK
Binding: Paperback
Price: £38.99

Investigating the law of evidence in both a practical and an academic way, this text examines and analyzes the law in the context of the adversarial and managed systems of criminal and civil justice. It formally recognizes the operation of the different evidential principles between criminal and civil cases, including a detailed on the law of civil evidence.

Recognizing that the study of evidence should reflect the practical context in which the rules operate, it anticipates proposed legislative changes in the law of evidence. It examines the operation of the rules of civil and criminal evidence separately, giving an understanding of the different applications of the two rules