The Trial

Written by leading evidence law scholars; combined with practitioner contribution;The Trial examines procedural and evidentiary law under the uniform Evidence Acts. This is a book for evidence law students; scholars and for practising lawyers.The Trial challenges mainstream approaches to teaching evidence law by:contextualising the trial within key pre-trial processes; including police questioning; disclosure obligations and pleadings;connecting law reform; lawyers' roles and their ethical obligations to promote justice in a broad rather than a narrow; anodyne or legalistic fashion;acknowledging 21st century lawyers' need for literacy across human rights fair trial norms and their common law equivalents; andits interdisciplinary emphasis.The Trial focuses its study on the important functions of adversarialism and the oral tradition; as well as the consequential price exacted through diminishing access to justice for the vulnerable; particularly those with mental illness or cognitive impairment; children and sexual assault complainant witnesses. Regarding Indigenous Australians;The Trial also shows how such challenges compound the pre-existing harshness of criminal justice processes. In Australia; no comprehensive evidence book presents doctrinal analysis so comprehensively within a humanising context.The Trial places the criminal jury trial centre-stage. This is where the law of evidence and procedure is commonly hotly contested; where major defining evidentiary case law arises and where the cut and thrust of advocacy; crucially shaping the trial; are classically on show. It is also where rapid change has an impact on expertise and; through law reform; creates pressures on fundamental accusatorial principles in an increasingly complex justice environment. Buy now the item at ONLY: 125.00