Confession Evidence in UK Law
- Review: Confession Evidence
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Admissibility of confession evidence: Principles of hearsay and the rule of voluntariness
The common law test of voluntariness has come to be associated with important policy rationales including the privilege against self-incrimination. However, when the test originated more than a cen...
- Book Review: Wolchover and Heaton-Armstrong on Confession Evidence
- Evidence Obtained in Consequence of an Inadmissible Confession
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Unreliable Confessions and Miscarriages of Justice in Britain
Miscarriages of justice are sometimes caused by confessions, which are coerced by the police or result from suspects' psychological vulnerabilities during custody and interrogation. In recent years...... ... tions based chiefly on confession evidence ... during custody and interrogation. In recent years ... in ... ...
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The Detention and Interrogation of Suspects in Police Custody in France
Drawing upon my own empirical research, this article examines the regulation of the detention and interrogation of suspects held in police custody in France - the ways ...... ... and interests of the suspect are protected and thereliability of evidence guaranteed. After considering the legal framework and theimpact of the ... Despite the centrality of confession evidence inpractice and the obvious vulnerability of those detained, the ... ...
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The Epistemology of Statistical Evidence
Numerous accounts have been suggested to explain differences between statistical and individualised evidence and to justify restrictions on the use of statistical evidence in court. A dominant dire...... ... Epistemic accounts thus constitute attempts to identify anintrinsic quality which individualised evidence (such as eyewitness testimony,confession, the individuals medical records) has but statistical evidence lacks, aquality which makes inference from the statistical evidence to the ... ...
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Defensive Use of a Co-Accused's Confession and the Criminal Justice Act 2003
The Criminal Justice Act 2003 introduces statutory provisions regulating the extent to which a defendant may adduce a co-defendant's confession in a joint trial. The relevant provisions are based u...... ... THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE & PROOF 165DEFENSIVE USE OF A CO-ACCUSEDS CONFESSION AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 2003PDefensive use of aco-accuseds confessionand the Criminal ... ...
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Confessions and the Criminal Justice Act 2003
The admissibility of hearsay evidence in criminal proceedings in England and Wales is now governed by provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, a result of Law Commission reform proposals. The L...... ... Abstract ... The admissibility of hearsay evidence in criminal proceedings in ... England and Wales is now governed by ... ’s statutory framework and that the admissibility of such a confession for the prosecu- tion when made by a defendant is governed by s. 76 of the ... ...
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Exclusion of illegally obtained confessions in China
The exclusion of illegally obtained evidence has long been the focus of theoretical research and legislative reform in China. After years of efforts, the exclusionary rule has finally found a footh...... ... Law, Beijing, ChinaAbstractThe exclusion of illegally obtained evidence has long been the focus of theoretical researchand legislative reform in ... surveys: the definition andscope of illegally obtained confession, proof of illegally obtained confession, and suppressionhearing. In ... ...
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