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Zusatztext The book is a comparative tour de force on one of the most fundamental questions in criminal procedures across the globe. Drawing upon a thorough knowledge of both Continental and Anglo-American systems, the author offers new cross-cultural insights into the enduring debate on the admissibility of improperly acquired evidence. In times of rapid internationalization of criminal evidence this is an illuminating reading for practitioners and academics interested in fresh cosmopolitan insights in this area. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to offer an extensive cosmopolitan, cross-cultural insight into the perennial controversy over the use of improperly obtained evidence in criminal trials. It challenges the conventional view that exclusionary rules are idiosyncratic of Anglo-American law, and highlights the ‘constitutionalisation’ and ‘internationalisation’ of criminal evidence and procedure as a cause of rapprochement (or divergence) beyond the Anglo-American and Continental law divide.Analysis focuses on confessional evidence and evidence obtained by search and seizure, telephone interceptions and other means of electronic surveillance. The laws of England and Wales, France, Greece and the United States are systematically compared and contrasted throughout this study, but, where appropriate, analysis extends to other Anglo-American and Continental legal systems. The book reviews exclusionary rules vis-à-vis the operation of judicial discretion, and explores the normative justifications that underpin them. It attempts to reinvigorate the idea of excluding evidence to protect constitutional or human rights (the rights thesis), arguing that there is significant scope for Anglo-American and Continental legal systems to place a renewed emphasis on it, particularly in relation to confessional evidence obtained in violation of custodial interrogation rights; we can locate an emerging rapprochement, and unique potential for European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence to build consensus in this respect. In marked contrast, remaining divergence with regard to evidence obtained by privacy violations means there is little momentum to adopt a reinvigorated rights thesis more widely.Longlisted for the Inner Temple Book Prize 2022. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction I. Four Comparative Law Pillars II. Linguistics III. Who Excludes? IV. At What Stage of the Process is Evidence Excluded? V. What Happens after Exclusion? VI. Organisation of the Book 2. Exclusionary Rules for Evidence Obtained in Violation of the Right to Privacy: Greece and the United States I. Prolegomena on the Link Between Constitutionalisation and Automatic Exclusionary Rules II. Reading the Exclusionary Rule into the Constitution III. Constitutional Exclusionary Rules IV. The Greek Exclusionary Rule for Evidence Obtained by the Commission of Criminal Offences V. Same Origins, Different Directions: The Deterrent and Protective Rationales in Action VI. Caveats VII. Concluding Thoughts VIII. Epilogue: Triggers for the Constitutionalisation of the Exclusionary Rule 3. Discretionary Exclusion of Evidence Obtained in Violation of the Right to Privacy: France and England and Wales I. General Principles and Legislative Framework II. Jurisprudential Applications: Admitting Evidence Obtained in Violation of the Right to Privacy III. Evidence Obtained Through the Bugging of Police Cells: French Lessons for England and Wales? IV. Concluding Thoughts 4. Improperly Obtained Confessional Evidence: Converging Rights-Based Approaches I. The Modern Metamorphoses of the French Nullités of the Garde à Vue : The Road to Automatic Nullities II. Automatic Nullities for Violations of Suspects' Rights in Greece III. Miranda v Arizona : The Exclusionary Rule in Fast Decline (but Exclusion is Still Automatic) IV. Confessional Evidence, Reliability and Suspects'...
