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The Trial: Principles, Process and Evidence


ISBN13: 9781760020262
Published: August 2015
Publisher: The Federation Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Format: Paperback
Price: Out of print



Written by leading evidence law scholars, combined with practitioner contribution, The Trial examines procedural and evidentiary law under the uniform Evidence Acts. This is a book for evidence law students, scholars and for practising lawyers.

The Trial challenges mainstream approaches to teaching evidence law by:

  • contextualising the trial within key pre-trial processes, including police questioning, disclosure obligations and pleadings;
  • connecting law reform, lawyers’ roles and their ethical obligations to promote justice in a broad rather than a narrow, anodyne or legalistic fashion;
  • acknowledging 21st century lawyers’ need for literacy across human rights fair trial norms and their common law equivalents; and
  • its interdisciplinary emphasis.
The Trial focuses its study on the important functions of adversarialism and the oral tradition, as well as the consequential price exacted through diminishing access to justice for the vulnerable, particularly those with mental illness or cognitive impairment, children and sexual assault complainant witnesses.

Regarding Indigenous Australians, The Trial also shows how such challenges compound the pre-existing harshness of criminal justice processes. In Australia, no comprehensive evidence book presents doctrinal analysis so comprehensively within a humanising context.

The Trial places the criminal jury trial centre-stage. This is where the law of evidence and procedure is commonly hotly contested, where major defining evidentiary case law arises and where the cut and thrust of advocacy, crucially shaping the trial, are classically on show. It is also where rapid change has an impact on expertise and, through law reform, creates pressures on fundamental accusatorial principles in an increasingly complex justice environment.

Subjects:
Other Jurisdictions , Australia
Contents:
Shaping the Criminal Trial: Principle, Pleadings and Prosecuting
Adversarialism, Advocacy, Proof and the Jury
Client Legal Privilege
Framing the Criminal Trial
Introducing the Law of Evidence: Relevance, Discretions and Fairness
The Witness in the Box
Cross-Examination, Witness Credibility and Related Challenges
Hearsay – The Rule
Hearsay – Exceptions to the Rule
The Criminal Defendant in Court
Character Evidence
Tendency, Coincidence and Character Evidence
The Character Battle
Police Questioning and The Accused: Silence And Admissions
Opinion Evidence
Identification Evidence
The Rise and Rise of Judicial Warnings