Garrow and Casey's principles of the law of evidence
Edition: 8th ed. / by Sir Maurice Casey.
Publisher: Butterworths
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Wellington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Evidence (Law)
Other titles: Principles of the law of evidence
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Garrow and McGechan's principles of the law of evidence. 7th ed. 1984.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introductory (Nature of the law of evidence ; The burden of proof & standard of proof ; Presentation of the case); title: Facts which may be proved (Facts in issue & relate matters ; The exclusionary rules of evidence ; First exclusionary rule : similar facts ; Second exclusionary rule : hearsay ; Admissions : confessions ; Hearsay under the Evidence Amendment Act (No 2) 1980 ; Declarations by persons since deceased ; Statements in public documents ; Accompanying statements : res gestae ; Previous statements by witnesses ; Third exclusionary rule : opinion evidence ; Fourth exclusionary rule : character evidence); title: Modes of proof (Judicial notice ; Foreign law ; Presumptions ; Estoppels ; Judgments); title: Documentary evidence (Private documents : primary evidence ; Private documents : secondary evidence ; Proof of public documents ; Exclusion of extrinsic evidence to contradict or vary documents ; Admission of extrinsic evidence to interpret documents); title: Witnesses (Competency & compellability ; Privilege ; Immunities ; The sequence of events : memory : identification); title: Appendixes (Evidence Acts ; Evidence (Videotaping of Child Complainants) Regulations 1990).