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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Criminal Evidence and Human Rights: Reimagining Common Law Procedural Traditions by Edited by Professor Paul Roberts Edited by Jill Hunter
Criminal procedure in the common law world is being recast in the image of human rights. Comprising sixteen essays plus the editors thematic introduction this volume explores various aspects of the human rights revolution in criminal evidence and procedure in Australia Canada England and Wales Hong Kong Malaysia New Zealand Northern Ireland the Republic of Ireland Singapore Scotland South Africa and the USA. The contributors provide expert evaluations of their own domestic law and practice with frequent reference to comparative experiences in other jurisdictions. Some essays focus on specific topics such as evidence obtained by torture the presumption of innocence hearsay the privilege against self-incrimination and rape shield laws. Others seek to draw more general lessons about the context of law reform the epistemic demands of the right to a fair trial the domestic impact of supra-national legal standards (especially the ECHR) and the scope for re-imagining common law procedures through the medium of human rights.This edited collection showcases the latest theoretically informed methodologically astute and doctrinally rigorous scholarship in criminal procedure and evidence human rights and comparative law and will be a major addition to the literature in all of these fields.