Evidence

This book has been written with two aims. The first is to help students who wish to revise particular topics in evidence law. It should be especially helpful because it emphasises those aspects of each topic which are of key importance, and which for some may have seemed obscured behind a mass of detail. The second aim is to show by example how to write good answers to questions in examinations. In particular, the book shows the importance of a practical approach that requires a student to think as carefully about facts as about law. This sixth edition reflects the radical changes brought about by the Criminal Justice Act 2003, especially in relation to hearsay and character evidence. It also takes into account the growing body of case law on topics such as reverse burdens of proof, cross-examination of complainants in trials for sexual offences, evidence obtained by entrapment, and silence in the face of police questioning.