Rethinking Evidence : Exploratory Essays
William. Twining
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2006
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Omfang | 1 online resource (533 p.)
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Utgave | 2nd ed.
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title; Serious-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Table of cases; 1 Introduction The Story of a Project; 2 Taking Facts Seriously; 3 The Rationalist Tradition of Evidence Scholarship; 4 Some Scepticism about Some Scepticisms; 5 Identification and Misidentification in Legal Processes: Redefining the Problem; 6 What is the Law of Evidence?; 7 Rethinking Evidence; 8 Legal Reasoning and Argumentation; 9 Stories and Argument; 10 Lawyers' Stories; 11 Narrative and Generalizations in Argumentation about Questions of Fact. - 12 Reconstructing the Truth about Edith Thompson: The Shakespearean and the Jurist13 The Ratio Decidendi of the Parable of the Prodigal Son; 14 Taking Facts Seriously - Again; 15 Evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject; Bibliography; Index. - These essays develop a readable, coherent historical and theoretical perspective about problems of proof, evidence, and inferential reasoning in law. They are woven together to present a sustained argument for a broad inter-disciplinary approach to evidence in litigation, in which the rules of evidence play a subordinate, though significant, role.
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Emner | Evidence (Law).
Law, General & Comparative Law, Politics & Government bevis straffeprosess bevisteori prosessrett |
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ISBN | 0521675375. - 9780521675376
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