Includes index

Contents: Silence, lies and vicious circularity -- Approaches to similar fact evidence: England and Australia -- Implications of the human right rationale for legal professional privilege-the demise of implied statutory abrogation? -- Legal proof of knowledge -- Empirical evaluation of the hearsay rule -- Exploring the integrity principle in evidence and procedure -- Silence, innocence and human rights -- The Policies of legal information services: a perspective of three decades -- Information technology and the criminal justice system -- Defining and rewarding invention: a review and a modest proposal for patent law -- Cumulation and convergence of intellectual property rights.