With the developing landscape of a European criminal justice sphere comes an increasing imperative for scholars and practitioners to gain some insight into the diversity that exists in the criminal justice systems of European Union Member States. This book explores the mutual admissibility of evidence; a facet of EU criminal justice that is proving difficult to realise. Drawing upon case studies from Ireland, France and Italy, and adopting a legal cultural perspective, and enriched by the author's observations of criminal trials, the book presents a detailed analysis of the developments to date in EU criminal justice and evidence law.
An overview on United States Supreme Court decisions regarding expert admissibility issues.
... a MR-based system for the purpose of obtaining certain types of evidence abroad in criminal matters, whilst the entirety of other ways of gathering evidence abroad would still be governed by traditional MLA-based instruments.
The book explains and critiques uniform evidence law in an accessible and student friendly style, with case examples to illustrate the practical applications of uniform evidence law and flowcharts to clearly summarise complex legal rules ...
Any effort to gather evidence may prove pointless without ensuring its admissibility.