Rethinking evidence : exploratory essays /

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Main Author: Twining, William, 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Law in context.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the story of a project
  • Taking facts seriously
  • The Rationalist Tradition of evidence scholarship
  • Some scepticism about some scepticisms
  • Identification and misidentification in legal processes : redefining the problem
  • What is the law of evidence?
  • Rethinking evidence
  • Legal reasoning and argumentation
  • Stories and argument
  • Lawyers' stories
  • Narrative and generalizations in argumentation about questions of fact
  • Reconstructing the truth about Edith Thompson the Shakespearean and the jurist
  • The Ratio Decidendi of the parable of the Prodigal Son
  • Taking facts seriously, again
  • Evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject.