Internationalisation of Criminal Evidence - Beyond the Common Law and Civil Law Traditions

Informationen zum Autor John Jackson is a barrister at law and Dean and Professor of Criminal Law at the School of Law, University College Dublin. Sarah Summers is currently Oberassistentin in criminal law and criminal procedure at the Law School in the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Law, Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. Klappentext An examination of international attempts to develop common principles for regulating criminal evidence across different legal traditions. Zusammenfassung With reference to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the new international criminal tribunals! John Jackson and Sarah Summers chart the development of a genuinely cosmopolitan law of evidence in criminal cases across the common law and civil law traditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Evidence across traditions; 2. The common law tradition; 3. The civil law tradition; 4. Criminal evidence law and the international human rights context; 5. Evidence in the international criminal tribunals; 6. Fair trials and the use of improperly obtained evidence; 7. The presumption of innocence; 8. Silence and the privilege against self-incrimination; 9. Defence participation; 10. Confrontation and cross-examination; 11. Conclusion: towards a theory of evidentiary defence rights.

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• Authors: John D Jackson, John D. Jackson, John D. (University College Dublin) Jackson, John D. (University College Dublin) Summe Jackson, John D. Summers Jackson, Jackson John D., Sarah J. Summers, Sarah J. (Universitat Zurich) Summers, Summers Sarah J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2012
• EAN: 9781107018655
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01865-5
• No. of pages: 442
• Series: Law in Context; Law in Context
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / Criminal Procedure, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Evidence, International Criminal Law, comparative law, Public international law: criminal law, Criminal Procedure: Law Of Evidence