Evidence, Proof and Justice Legal Philosophy and the Provable in English Courts
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776816858
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Introduction; title: 1.1. Demosthenes, Cicero and the rationalist tradition; title: 1.2. Theories of evidence; title: 1.3. Legal philosophy and the rationalist tradition; title: 1.4. Guide to readers; title: 2. The presumption of innocence and adverse inferences from silence; title: 2.1. Introduction; title: 2.2. The presumption of innocence: the marcescent Woolmington principle; title: 2.3. Adverse inferences from silence; title: 2.4. European Convention Jurisprudence and Commonwealth Paradigms Re-Examined; title: 3. Protecting vulnerable witnesses: summum ius summa iniuria; title: 3.1. Introduction; title: 3.2. The principle of orality; title: 3.3. False-memory; title: 3.4. Sexual History Evidence or the slagging-off of the complainant in rape cases; title: 3.5. Special Measures and Judicial Discretion; title: 3.6. Summary and Conclusion; title: 4. Double jeopardy and similar fact evidence; title: 4.1. Introduction; title: 4.2. The extent to which double jeopardy protects an accused from further proceedings based on same factual situation; title: 4.3. The impact of the CJA 2003 on the Principle of Double Jeopardy and Similar Fact Rule; title: 4.4. Double Jeopardy and Reopening of Final Acquittals; title: 4.5. Summary and Conclusion; title: 5. Identification evidence: old problems, new solutions; title: 5.1. Introduction; title: 5.2. Causes Célèbres and the Turner rule; title: 5.3. Failure of courts to prescribe rigorous rules for scrutinizing scientific opinion evidence; title: 5.4. Conclusion; title: 6. Public interest immunity, privilege and liberty rights: Hohfeld’s analysis re-examined; title: 6.1. Introduction; title: 6.2. Theories of unimpeded access to justice; title: 6.3. Conclusion; title: 7. Expert evidence and mathematical proof; title: 7.1. Introduction; title: 7.2. The Pascal/Bayes School of Probability and Uncertainty; title: 7.3. The Bacon/Mill/Cohen School of Inductive Probability; title: 7.4. The Shafer/Dempster School of Non-additive Beliefs; title: 8. The Scandinavian School of Evidentiary Value; title: 9. Conclusion; title: 10. Epilogue: the future; title: 10.1. What is wrong with the English adversarial system of justice?; title: 10.2. Free proof and the adversarial system of justice: the final words; title: 11. List of Abbreviations; title: 12. Endnotes