Dock Identification in UK Law
- Dock Identification: Compatibility with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights
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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
... ... REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL OMMIlTEE ON EVIDENCE OF IDENTIFICATION IN CRIMINAL CASES 1. Introduction The subject of evidence of ... be given in evidence, the consequence of which is that a dock identification will be allowed.2u In view of the importance of ... ...
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Identification Officers' Guide to Recent Judicial Decisions
... ... In such a case an identification parade should be held and the prosecution should not be allowed to make a dock identification. The bottom line is that there is a difference between recognition and identification and - wbere a victim does not know ... ...
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E. Voyiakis, Private Law and the Value of Choice, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017, 268 pp, hb £70.00.
... ... The f act that dock identification could be regarded as reliable evidence might be vie wed as ... ...
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Peter Duff and Pamela R. Ferguson (eds), Scottish Criminal Evidence Law: Current Developments and Future Trends, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018, 278 pp, hb £75.00.
... ... The f act that dock identification could be regarded as reliable evidence might be vie wed as ... ...
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The Corroboration Requirement in Scottish Criminal Trials: Should it Be Retained for Some Forms of Problematic Evidence?
The merits of corroborated evidence in criminal trials have been hotly debated in many jurisdictions, with most having now abandoned this requirement. The Scottish government intends to do likewise...... ... In respect of visual identification evidence, it is argued that anysafeguard which corroboration might have ... thepurpose of this is simply to confirm that the person in the dock is indeed theperson whom the witness has previously identified as having ... ...
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Recent Judicial Decisions
... ... No one actually complained to the police. Identification of the behaviour of individuals was, of course, most difficult. The ... to exclude them on the grounds that their purpose was to allow dock identification - a practice frowned upon. It was not as if they were ... ...
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Noticeboard
... ... evidence against her husband in the forthcomingcriminal proceedings.Dock identificationUnited Kingdom (Scotland)English courts have a long-standing ... presence in the dockwill bias the witness toward making the identification. In Scotland the attitude isquite the opposite: dock identifications are a ... ...
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Recent Judicial Decisions
... ... and Nelson had declined to attend on the ground that identification made so long after the event would have no value. The inspector in ... 2.13), but it is in some respects little better than a dock identification, and the courts may well exclude such evidence where ... ...
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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
... ... [1997]1 WLR 548, anappeal was founded on an attack upon the identification evidence of theoff-duty officers who had witnessed the events on the bus, ... stated that he could identifyhim and did so by pointing to him in the dock. He had earlier identifiedhim at the shoot-out and the arrest of the ... ...
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