Phipson on Evidence 17th Ed

Subjects:

Evidence

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Defining the issues

3. Judicial notice

4. Admissions

5. Estoppels

6. Burden and standard of proof

7. Relevance, admissibility and weight; previous and subsequent existence of facts; the best evidence rule

8. Attendance of witnesses: witness summonses and letters of request

9. Competence and compellability, oath and affirmation

10. Evidence taken or served before trial; duty to disclose

11. Rules of evidence relating to the course of a trial: General

12. Rules of evidence relating to the course of a trial: Examination of witnesses

13. Evidence taken after trial

14. Corroboration and supporting evidence

15. Identification

16. Physical conditions, states of mind and emotions

17. Character: general and introductory

18. Good character

19. Bad character of the accused (prosecution aspects)

20. Bad character of the accused (defence aspects)

21. Bad character of the co-accused

22. Bad character of persons other than the accused

23. Privilege: legal professional privilege

24. Privilege: other forms of privilege

25. Facts excluded by public policy

26. Loss and abuse of privilege

27. The implied undertaking

28. The rule against hearsay

29. Hearsay in civil proceedings

30. Hearsay in criminal proceedings

31. Resgestae and certain other exceptions to the hearsay rule in criminal proceedings

32. Common law exceptions to the rule against hearsay: evidence of reputation or family tradition, published works, public information, bankers' books, ancient documents

33. Opinion and expert evidence

34. Statistical and survey evidence

35. Restrictions on the right to silence: introduction

36. Confessions

37. Statements in the presence, and documents in the possession, of a party

38. Agency, partnership, companies common purpose, acting in a capacity

39. Judicial discretion to admit or exclude evidence

40. Probates, verdicts, awards, inquisitions, pleadings, writs and depositions in former trials

41. Authorship, copies and execution

42. Exclusion of extrinsic evidence to substitute, contradict, vary, or interpret documents

43. Judgments

44. Appendix ;

The leading work on civil and criminal evidence, Phipson on Evidence:-

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• Covers every area of the subject in depth, so that the work can be relied upon to solve even the most complex questions relating to evidence
• Takes into account the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules, the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and subsequent legislation passed in the five years since the previous edition was published
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• Deals with the fundamental changes to the rules of hearsay and character introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003
• Covers both civil and criminal evidence
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