Law of evidence (England and Wales)
In England and Wales , law of evidence refers to a field of law that deals with the admissibility and usability of evidence for both criminal and civil proceedings. It includes, for example, the admissible evidence, the burden of proof and, in particular, the details of the witness evidence and the expert evidence. It is in the common law -Tradition still in many parts of case law, however, was by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , Civil Evidence Act 1995 , the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 and the Criminal Justice Act 2003 in many parts by statute law reformed.
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literature
Textbooks
- Raymond Emson : Evidence . 4th edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 978-0-230-53747-7 .
- Peter Murphy : Murphy on Evidence . 11th edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-956112-4 .
Monographs
- Heinrich Nagel and Ena-Marlis Bajons (eds.): Proof - Preuve - Evidence. Principles of the civil procedural law of evidence in Europe . Nomos, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7890-6610-8 .
- Christian Schröder: The right of evidence in English civil proceedings . Martin Meidenbauer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-626-5 .
Web links
Wikisource: Entry evidence in the Encyclopædia Britannica from 1911 - sources and full texts (English)
