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The receipt of evidence by Queensland courts: the evidence of children (Report no 55, pt 2)
Author : Queensland. Law Reform Commission
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN :
The receipt of evidence by Queensland courts: the evidence of children (Report no 55, pt 2)
Author : Miiko Kumar
Publisher :
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Evidence (Law)
ISBN : 9780455235837
Uniform Evidence Law: Commentary and Materials, 5th editionhas been updated throughout to provide essential case and legislative extracts and thoughtful, concise commentary covering the uniform evidence legislation in the UEL jurisdictions of the Commonwealth, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
Author : Michael Burton
Publisher : Xpl Pub
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781858113791
Any practitioner faced with the decision as to whether to appeal, or who has questions arising at each stage, will benefit enormously from a book that examines the law, principles, procedures, and processes involved. This leading work has been updated and restructured, to ensure it provides guidance on the complete and complex process of making a civil appeal. Clearly written and cross referenced, the books UK/European coverage of appeals includes: -- District Judges to Circuit Judges in the County Court -- Masters and District Judges to High Court Judges -- Court of Appeal -- House of Lords -- Privy Council -- The European Court -- The European Court of Human Rights -- Administrative Law and Elections
Author : J R Spencer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1847319556
In 2009, Stephen Barker was convicted of rape on the evidence of a little girl who was four-and-a-half years old at the trial, and about three-and-a-half when first interviewed by the police. The high point of the proceedings was the child's appearance as a live witness in order for Barker's counsel to attempt a cross-examination. This case focused attention on the need, imposed by current English law, for even tiny children to come to court for a live cross-examination. In 1989, the Pigot Committee proposed a scheme under which the whole of a young child's evidence, including cross-examination, would be obtained out of court and in advance of trial. In 1999 a provision designed to give effect to this was included in the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act, but it has not yet been brought into force. The full Pigot proposal was implemented, however, in Western Australia, and similar schemes operate in a number of European jurisdictions. This book of essays examines a number of these schemes, and argues the case for further reforms in the UK.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Nuisances
ISBN : 9781876986506
Author : Anne Cossins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137320516
This book examines the justice gap and trial process for sexual assault against both adults and children in two jurisdictions: England and Wales and New South Wales, Australia. Drawing on decades of research, it investigates the reality of the policing and prosecution of sexual assault offences – often seen as one of the ‘hardest crimes to prosecute’ – across two similar jurisdictions. Despite the introduction of the many reform options detailed in the book, satisfactory outcomes for victims and the public are still difficult to obtain. Cossins takes a new approach by examining the nature and effects of adversarialism on vulnerable witnesses, jury decision-making and the structures of power within the trial process, to show how, and at what points, that process is weighted against complainants of sexual assault, in order to make evidence-based suggestions for reform. She argues that this justice gap is a result of a moralistic adversarial culture which fosters myths and misconceptions about rape and child sexual assault, thus requiring the prosecution to prove a complainant’s moral worthiness. She argues this culture can only be eliminated by a radical replacement of the adversarial system with a trauma-informed system. By reviewing the relevant psychological literature, this book documents the triggers for re-traumatisation within an adversarial trial, and discusses the reform measures that would be necessary to transform the sexual assault trial from one where the complainant’s moral worthiness is ‘on trial’ to a fully functioning trauma-informed system. It speaks to students and academics across subjects including law, criminology, gender studies and psychology, and practitioners in law and victim services, as well as policy-makers.
Author : Linda Daniele
Publisher :
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Equality before the law
ISBN : 9780731356126
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN :
Author : Alan Davidson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052167865X
This book comprehensively addresses the new laws and regulations surrounding electronic commerce.
Author : New South Wales. Law Reform Commission
Publisher :
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Instructions to juries
ISBN : 9780734726803
This report is about the directions that judges give to juries in the course of a criminal trail, and particularly at the summing up. These directions are designed to help jurors understand as much of the law and the issues that arise in the case as they need to make proper use of the evidence and to reach a verdict.