Margaret L Ross and James P Chalmers, WALKER AND WALKER: THE LAW OF EVIDENCE IN SCOTLAND Haywards Heath: Tottel Publishing (www.tottelpublishing.com), 3rd edn, 2009. ci + 616 pp. ISBN 9781845921651. £120.

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AuthorFiona Leverick
DOI10.3366/elr.2010.0321
Published date01 September 2010
Date01 September 2010
Pages540-541

Walker and Walker's The Law of Evidence in Scotland was first published in 1964, at a time when the discipline was crying out for a text covering the civil and criminal law of evidence, given that the most recent work of any substance (the third edition of Dickson's A Treatise on the Law of Evidence in Scotland) was published in 1887. A much needed second edition of Walker and Walker followed in 2000, written by Margaret Ross with the assistance of James Chalmers. This third edition, published in 2009, sees James Chalmers elevated to the status of co-author alongside Margaret Ross.

The structure of the third edition remains identical to that of the second and the only alteration in terms of coverage is that some material that is no longer relevant, such as proof by restricted mode, has been dropped. Retaining the familiar layout – the chapter headings remain the same – is almost certainly a positive point. Practitioners will be familiar with these and there is no sense in interfering with what has always been a well-structured work.

The changes made in the third edition are thus in the nature of general updating to reflect developments in the...

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