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.