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Munday's
Evidence provides students with a concise yet analytical introduction to the law of evidence. Vibrant and engaging, this invaluable text is the ideal guide to this challenging subject.
List of contents
- 1: Relevance and admissibility of evidence
- 2: Presumptions and the burden of proof
- 3: Witnesses: competence, compellability, and various privileges
- 4: The course of the trial
- 5: Witnesses' previous consistent statements and the remnants of the rule against narrative
- 6: Character and credibility
- 7: Evidence of the defendant's good character in criminal cases
- 8: Evidence of the defendant's bad character
- 9: The opinion rule and the presentation of expert evidence
- 10: The rule against hearsay
- 11: Confessions
- 12: Drawing adverse inferences from a defendant's omissions, lies, or false alibis
- 13: Identification evidence
About the author
Roderick Munday is a Reader Emeritus in Law at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow Emeritus at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Along with Evidence, he is also the author of Cross and Tapper on Evidence (OUP: 2018) and Agency: Law and Principles (OUP: 2016) as well as a co-author of Commercial Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (OUP: 2020).
Summary
Munday's Evidence provides students with a concise yet analytical introduction to the law of evidence. Vibrant and engaging, this invaluable text is the ideal guide to this challenging subject.
Additional text
Excellent academic rigour and coverage...its academic weight and depth of analysis is its strength.
