Similar Fact Evidence in UK Law
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Case Management, Similar Fact Evidence in Civil Cases, and a Divided Law of Evidence
It is widely assumed that, by virtue of their acquired professional skills, judges are markedly better than jurors at performing complex adjudicative tasks and that they are less susceptible to the...
- The Prejudice against Similar Fact Evidence
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The Role of Gender in Judicial Decision-Making: Similar Fact Evidence, the Rose West Trial and beyond
This article uses the trial of Rose West as a window through which to examine and understand some of the processes underlying decisions to allow or exclude similar fact evidence in rape and other s...
- FORBIDDEN REASONING PERMISSIBLE: SIMILAR FACT EVIDENCE A DECADE AFTER BOARDMAN
- SIMILAR FACT EVIDENCE AND DISPOSITION: LAW, DISCRETION AND ADMISSIBILITY
- The Impact of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 on Similar Fact Evidence
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Law Reports, Transcripts, and the Fabric of the Criminal Law —A Speculation
Thanks to the advent of searchable, computerised archives of unreported (but fully referenced) appellate decisions, anyone researching a legal problem today has ready access to a vast mass of previ...... ... Usingthesoon-to-be-defunct similar fact evidence principles as anillustration, this ... ...
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Law Reports, Transcripts, and the Fabric of the Criminal Law—A Speculation
Thanks to the advent of searchable, computerised archives of unreported (but fully referenced) appellate decisions, anyone researching a legal problem today has ready access to a vast mass of previ...... ... Using the soon-to-be-defunct similar fact evidence principles as an illustration, this ... ...
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Wiping the Slate Clean: Reforming Scots Law's Approach to Evidence of the Accused's Bad Character
This paper discusses the Scottish Law Commission (SLC)'s Report on Similar Fact Evidence and the Moorov Doctrine, which proposes revolutionary changes to the way in which Scots law deals with evide...... ... paper discusses the Scottish Law Commission (SLC)’s Report on Similar Fact Evidence and the Moorov Doctrine , which proposes revolutionary ... ...
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Myths, Relationships and Coincidences: The New Problems of Sexual History
This article reviews recent developments in the law governing the admissibility of sexual history evidence in England and Wales. After the decision of the House of Lords in R v A (No. 2), the law r...... ... the admissibility of sexual history evidence in England and Wales. After the decision ... concepts drawn from the law on similar fact evidence have been used as the ... ...
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