Roberts & Zuckerman’s Criminal Evidence – Third Edition

Overview

• A highly original contribution to evidence scholarship providing authoritative commentary on the fundamental principles and underlying logic of the law of criminal evidence
• Engages with the broader jurisprudential, moral, and political significance of detailed rules of evidence, encouraging a deeper and more holistic understanding of the subject
• Identifies and elucidates coherent foundations of principle for particular evidentiary doctrines including fair trial, the presumption of innocence, the privilege against self-incrimination, hearsay, and bad character
• Considers the forensic applications of inductive logic, narrative and probability
• Fully integrated coverage of the European Convention on Human Rights and post-Human Rights Act developments to date, alongside relevant jurisprudence from the USA, Australia, Canada and other commonwealth jurisdictions
• First edition quickly established itself as a leading evidence text throughout the common law world. It was widely and favourably reviewed and has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada

New to this Edition:

• The third edition of this critically acclaimed work has been comprehensively revised, to keep each chapter to a manageable length and to enhance the book’s thematic approach
• Fully updated to account for all major doctrinal developments since the second edition, including new cases on torture evidence, reverse onus clauses, confrontation, hearsay, previous sexual history and bad character