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Coping with Cross-Examination and Other Pathways to Effective Testimony Stanley L. Brodsky Health professionals, substance abuse counselors, psychologists, handwriting analysts, and experts on physical evidence will be interested in this book that teaches readers about the typical techniques attorneys use to challenge experts' credibility and the basis of their opinions. Pointers on preparation and effective narrative style are included, backed by findings from the emerging literature on the assessment of expert testimony. |
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Evidence Under the Rules: Text, Cases, and Problems (Law School Casebook Series) Christopher B. Mueller, Laird C. Kirkpatrick Evidence Under the Rules, Sixth Edition, frames engaging problems and seminal cases in an eminently clear organization that adapts to a variety of teaching approaches.
Smart and unassuming, Evidence Under the Rules continues to feature:
a respected and well-known author team Mueller and Kirkpatrick are experts and trusted authors in the field of evidence
a logical and clear organization structured around the Federal Rules of Evidence
effectively balanced pedagogy lucid exposition, problems, and carefully edited cases
numerous and engaging problems that give students practice applying the Federal Rules of Evidence
focused case excerpts that hone in on the relevant evidentiary aspects of the case
a flexible organization that adapts to a variety of teaching approaches
a detailed Teacher s Manual
a new guide to excerpts from the media demonstrating the FRE being applied or misapplied
a companion 2008 Statutory and Case Supplement
The Sixth Edition offers renewed timeliness and excellence, through:
numerous new and highly teachable problems, a new DVD compilation of the best excerpts from movies and television shows illustrating and dramatizing important points of evidence for classroom discussion,
new material on post-Crawford developments regarding the right of confrontation, coverage of the 2006 amendments to the FRE 404, 408, 606, and 609, revised treatment of scientific evidence, recent and significant case law.
For a well-constructed problem-based casebook that won t throw a veil over the Federal Rules of Evidence, examine the Sixth Edition of Evidence Under The Rules. You ll discover that it supports your teaching.
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Evidence and Advocacy (Blackstone Press) Peter Murphy The aim of this book is to provide a helpful guide for practitioners in the magistrates' and county courts to the realities of conducting a successful case. The revised text includes the latest developments in all areas of the law of evidence, including confessions and the Codes of Practice, character and similar-fact evidence, the evidence of children and the use of written witness statements in civil cases.;References are made to the changes that may be introduced by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill. Peter Murphy has also written " A Practical Approach to Evidence" and was co-author of "Cases and Materials on Evidence". |
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Analysis Of Evidence. How To Do Things With Facts. With An Appendix On Probability And Proof Terence Anderson |
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Cross and Tapper on Evidence Colin Tapper Cross and Tapper on Evidence discusses the theory and practice of this field, and provides criticism and comment on the law, drawing on numerous recent cases to illustrate the workings of the law. It has been fully revised and rewritten to take into account the radical and controversial new Criminal Justice Act 2003. Major changes brought about by the new legislation, including those relating to the effect on acquittals, all the rules relating to character, and the hearsay rule in criminal cases, have been fully incorporated into the text. |
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The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History) John H. Langbein The lawyer-dominated adversary system of criminal trial, which now typifies practice in Anglo-American legal systems, developed in England in the eighteenth century. Using hitherto unexplored sources from London's Old Bailey Court, Professor Langbein shows how and why lawyers were able to capture the trial, and he supplies a path-breaking account of the formation of the law of criminal evidence.
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Expert Evidence and Criminal Justice (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice) Mike Redmayne Expert evidence presents a number of challenges to the legal system. Drawing on work in psychology, the philosophy and sociology of science, probability theory, forensic science, as well as on a broad spectrum of legal writings, Redmayne looks at these challenges and shows how to overcome them. |
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Evidence: Text and Materials (Longman Law Series) Andrew L. T. Choo This book provides students with a rich, up-to-date and comprehensive selection of materials on the law of evidence, supported by an explanatory text providing expert critical commentary. Students taking courses in evidence and related subjects will find a thorough and stimulating examination of the principles of the law of evidence, compiled and written by a leading authority on the subject. Evidence: text and materials brings together in accessible form a wide range of materials from a number of jurisdictions - cases, statutes and other statutory material as well as extracts from periodicals and other literature reflecting the views of individuals and organisations concerned with the law of evidence. The accompanying commentary is designed not only to provide the necessary explanatory context but also to help students engage with the documents themselves. A particular focus is on the policies underlying the law, and on the issue of reform. |
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An Introduction to the Law of Evidence (Hornbooks) Graham C. Lilly Demonstrates the interplay and interdependence of the Federal Rules of Evidence to reveal more of their character as an integrated code of evidence. There are, for serious students and practitioners, frequent citations to authorities. The entire text has been carefully reviewed, resulting in both substantive and editorial revisions. Subjects that are brought up-to-date include admission of scientific and probabilistic evidence, rape shield and related statutes, hearsay, and constitutional evidence doctrine. Use as a supplement to an evidence course, as a principal course book, or as a basic text assigned prior to the study of advanced evidence of trial advocacy. |
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Delayed Prosecution for Childhood Sexual Abuse (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice) Penney Lewis Child sexual abuse prosecutions are often brought following a substantial delay of some years after the alleged abuse. This delay poses a variety of problems for the prosecutions. The book will examine the problems associated with criminal prosecutions commenced many years after the abusive incidents were alleged to have occurred, the response of the criminal justice system to such cases, and how the system should respond in order to ensure that the defendant receives a fair trial, while recognising the reasons why complainants may delay reporting abuse for many years. |