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    Phipson on evidence / general editor, Hodge M. Malek.

    • Title:Phipson on evidence / general editor, Hodge M. Malek.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Malek, Hodge M., editor.
    • Published/Created:London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2018.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Evidence (Law)--Great Britain.
      Evidence (Law)--England.
      Evidence (Law)--Wales.
    • Edition:Nineteenth edition.
    • Description:ccxci, 1, 675 pages ; 24 cm
    • Series:Common law library.
    • Summary:"[This book covers] aspects of the principles and procedures making up the law of evidence. Coverage includes the admission of evidence, the standard of proof, the attendance of witnesses, good and bad character, legal professional privilege, hearsay, expert evidence, confessions, judicial discretion and many other evidential issues."-- Publisher's website.
    • Notes:Table of cases: pages xxi-ccliii.
      Table of statutes: pages cclv-cclxxvii.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0414065522
      9780414065529
    • Contents:1. Introduction
      2. The defining of the issues
      3. Judicial notice
      4. Admissions
      5. Estoppels
      6. Burden and standard of proof
      7. Relevance, admissibility and weight: previous and subsequent existence of facts: the best evidence rule
      8. Attendence of witnesses
      9. Competence and compellability, oath and affirmation
      10. Evidence taken or served before trial: duty to disclose evidence
      11. Rules of evidence relating to the course of a trial: general
      12. Rules of evidence relating to the course of a trial: examination of witnesses
      13. Evidence taken after trial 14. Corroboration, supporting evidence and related warnings
      15. Identification
      16. Physical conditions, states of mind and emotions
      17. Character: general and introductory
      18. Good character
      19. Bad character of the accused (prosecution aspects)
      20. Bad character of the accused (defence aspects)
      21. Bad character of the co-accused
      22. Bad character of persons other than the accused
      23. Legal professional privilege
      24. Other forms of privilege
      25. Facts excluded by public policy
      26. Loss and waiver of privilege
      27. The collateral undertaking
      28. The rule against hearsay
      29. Hearsay in civil proceedings 30. Hearsay in criminal proceedings
      31. Res gestae and certain other exceptions to the hearsay rule in criminal proceedings
      32. Common law exceptions to the rule against hearsay: evidence of reputation or family tradition; published works; public information; banker's books; ancient documents
      33. Opinion and expert evidence
      34. Statistical and survey evidence
      35. Restrictions on the right to silence
      36. Confessions
      37. Statements in the presence, and documents in the possession, of a party
      38. Agency, partnership, companies, common purpose, acting in a capacity 39. Judicial discretion to admit or exclude evidence
      40. Authorship and execution: attestation: ancient documents, connected and incorporated documents, alterations and blanks, registration, stamps, etc.
      41. Documents and documentary evidence; how documentary evidence is proved; categories of documentary evidence: public, judicial and private
      42. Exclusion of extrinsic evidence in substitution of, to contradict, vary or add to documents
      43. Judgments
      44. Appendix: miscellaneous statutes, rules, etc.
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