02849nam a22001817a 4500 121120t xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780199231669 KD7499.K43 Keane, Adrian. The modern law of evidence. / Adrian Keane 7th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. lxv, 692 p.: ill.; 26cm. Includes index. Contents: Introduction -- Preliminaries: Facts open to proof or disprooof -- The Varieties of evidence -- Relevance and admissibility -- Weight -- The Functions of the judge and jury -- Judicial discretion -- Proof of birth, death, age, convictions and acquittals -- Evidence obtained and standard of proof: The Burden of proof -- The Burden and standard of proof in trial within a trial -- Witnesses: Competence and compellability -- Oaths and affirmations -- Live links -- The Time at which evidence should be adduced -- Witnesses in civil cases -- Witnesses in criminal cases -- Examination-in-chief: Leading questions -- Refreshing the memory -- Previous consistent or self - serving statements -- Unfavourable and hostile witnesses -- Cross-examination: Cross-examination -- Re-examination -- Corroboration and care warnings: Corroboration required by statute -- Care warnings -- Confessions by the mentally handicapped -- Identification cases -- Lip-reading evidence -- Sudden infant death syndrome -- Documentary and real evidence: Documentary evidence -- Real evidence -- Hearsay in criminal cases: Background and rationale -- Admissibility of hearsay under the criminal justice Act 2003 -- Expert reports -- Written statement under section 9 of the criminal justice Act 1995 -- Safeguards -- Proof of statements contained in documents -- Evidence formerly admissible at common law -- Ogden tables -- Hearsay admissible at common law: Statements in public documents -- Works of reference -- Evidence of reputation -- Statements forming part of the res gestae -- Confessions: Admissibility -- The Discretion to exclude -- The Voir dire -- The Trial -- Statements made in presence of the accused -- Facts discovered in consequence of inadmissible confessions -- Statutory inferences from an accused's silence or conduct: Inferences from silence -- Inferences from refusal to consent to the taking of samples -- Inferences from failure to provide advance disclosure of the defence case -- Evidence of character: Evidence of character in civil cases -- Evidence of character: Evidence of the good character of the accused -- Evidence of character: Evidence of bad character in criminal cases -- Opinion evidence -- Public policy -- Privilege -- Judgements as evidence of the facts upon which they were based -- Proof of facts without evidence. Evidence (Law) Great Britain. lcc BK 2551 10051 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2012-11-20 0 KD7499.K43 6804/12 2012-11-20 00:00:00 1 2012-11-20 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2012-11-20 0 KD7499.K431 6805/12 2012-11-20 00:00:00 2 2012-11-20 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 LL 2014-03-26 0 KD7499.K43 888/13 2014-03-26 00:00:00 1 2014-03-26 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 LL 2014-03-26 0 KD7499.K431 889/13 2014-03-26 00:00:00 2 2014-03-26 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-KL WIUC-KL LL 2023-06-02 KD7499.K43 KSL/2089/292/23 2023-06-16 00:00:00 1 2014-03-26 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-KL WIUC-KL LL 2023-06-02 0 KD7499.K431 KSL/2090/293/23 2023-06-16 00:00:00 2 2023-06-02 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-KL WIUC-KL LL 2023-06-02 KD7499.K432 KSL/2091/294/23 2023-06-16 00:00:00 3 2023-06-02 BK