Recent Book: The Modern Law of Evidence
| Published date | 01 October 1989 |
| Date | 01 October 1989 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X8906200417 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
RECENT BOOKS
THE
MODERN
LAW
OF
EVIDENCE
-Second Edition - by Adrian
Keane -Published by Butterworths -Softcover price £16.95
Due to the unreasonableness
of
current legislators in churning
out
new laws adinfinitum, aided and abettedby the vigour
of
the judiciary in
interpretinglaws already passed, most authors
of
referencebooks experience
regularnightmaresas more and more text needs revising. Such must have
been the case with Adrian Keane
and
'The
Modem
Law
of
Evidence'
(1985). Facedwith an accumulating body of cases arising from the Police
and CriminalEvidence Act, 1984,
and
the important
new
provisionsof the
Criminal Justice Act, 1988, there is little
of
the original text that has
escaped revision.
Cases relating to confessions and the discretionary exclusion
of
evidenceare
of
particularsignificance as far as
PACE
isconcerned,whilst
many
of
the provisions
of
the CJA, 1988, including the giving
of
evidence
by live video link and the rewriting and extension
of
the categories
of
exception to the rule against hearsay evidence, have forced text revision.
Although heavily rewritten, however, the book retains its practical
flavour and thus continues to be an excellent investment for practitioners
and law students alike.
ALL
ENGLAND
LAW
REPORTS
ANNUAL
REVIEW
-Published
by Butterworths -Hard cover price £23.
The seventh
of
its kind, designed as a companion to the All England
Law
Reports, the review consists of contributions from twenty four
academic lawyers who evaluate the 1988 decisions
of
the courts relevant
to their particular sphere
of
interest, or specialism.
Some
cases are
examined in more than one article because different aspects are
of
importance in different contexts.
All categories
of
'conventionallegal classification'
are
covered,from
Administrative Law, through Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and
Sentencing, to Tortand Town
and
CountryPlanning, which,
of
necessity,
severelyrestricts the space devoted to matters esoteric to the police, but the
scholarlyapproach to all the reviews offers an opportunity to widen police
horizons beyond those created by Stones Justices Manual!
BEHIND
THE
UNIFORM·
Policing in Britain
and
American by Ian
K. McKenzie and G. Patrick Gallagher -Published by Prentice-Hall.
Soft cover price £12.50.
Abookwith
joint
British!Americanauthors, the former having served
with the LondonMetropolitan Police in the rank
of
superintendent,it seeks
to provide acomparison
of
policing in Britain and America. In effect,
because
of
Mr McKenzie's previous membership
of
the Metropolitan
Police, on the one hand, and the fact that the
USA
has in excess
of
20,000
independentpolicedepartments, on the.other, the main comparison made
is between the policing
of
London
and
New
York, respectively.
That
is
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