To modify and align investigatory and legal processes with witness capabilities and reflect memorial and decision processes that inform recognition judgements, this book examines lineup-based recognition approaches not requiring witnesses to identif...Loe edasi...
Medical in the Courtroom: Proving Injury, Causation, and Damages educates the reader on how to communicate science visuallyin personal injury, medical malpractice, criminal and forensic casesby creating art that utilizes medical records, radiographs...Loe edasi...
This book covers the collection, preservation, and analysis of forensic evidence, as well as the interpretation of this evidence in the context of criminal investigations....Loe edasi...
This book aims to enable non-experts in Genetics to understand the contribution of this science to resolve civil or criminal litigations, analysing evidence of human and non-human origins....Loe edasi...
Addresses cases relating on specific disciplines of forensic sciencefingerprints, pathology, ballistics, questioned documents, forensic odontology, forensic biology and DNA, and morefocussing on the judicial interpretation of forensic legal and scie...Loe edasi...
This accessible handbook focuses on the importance of neuropsychological evidence and the role of the neuropsychologist as expert witness in brain injury litigation....Loe edasi...
The global nature of crime often requires expert witnesses to work and present their conclusions in courts outside their home jurisdiction with the corresponding need for them to have an understanding of the different structures and systems operatin...Loe edasi...
This volume reviews the application of cognitive research to investigative interviewing, revealing how principles of cognition, memory and social dynamics may increase the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. It has a wide audience in psychology, foren...Loe edasi...
The interpretation and evaluation of scientific evidence and its presentation in a court of law is central both to the role of the forensic scientist as an expert witness and to the interests of justice....Loe edasi...
This book explores challenges posed by the use of DNA evidence to the traditional features, procedures and principles of the criminal trial. It examines the limitations of existing theories of criminal trial processes in the face of increasing use o...Loe edasi...
This book provides a section-by-section commentary on the relevant provisions of the Act, discussing the case-law that had interpreted them. The commentary has been revised in light of the new developments arising from several new leading cases....Loe edasi...
This book examines the operation of the privilege against self-incrimination in England and Wales, paying particular attention to the influence of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998 on the development of the princi...Loe edasi...
The testimony of an expert witness can lead to success or failure in cases that hinge on the presentations impact on a jury. Extensively updated to reflect new developments, this volume provides practical advice enabling expert witnesses and attorne...Loe edasi...
In 1989, the Pigot Committee proposed a scheme in which the whole of a young childs evidence, cross-examination and all, would be obtained out of court and in advance of trial. The scheme has been implemented in full in Western Australia, but not i...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the supposed justifications for limitation of the presumption of innocence by analysing its history, rationale and scope....Loe edasi...