El desafio de la busqueda de las personas victimas de desaparicion forzada comprende usualmente el de la recuperacion de la identidad de los restos que logran ser hallados. Este trabajo releva la ...dimension juridica de la identificacion y su calidad de decision acerca de la prueba de un hecho, que puede ser analizada con las herramientas conceptuales de la teoria de la prueba juridica. Sobre esa base, se aborda la pregunta sobre el estandar de prueba aplicable y se ofrece un analisis basado en la experiencia chilena reciente, en la que se ha tendido a consolidar la prueba positiva de ADN como una suerte de golden standard, exclusivo y excluyente, para la identificacion. A menudo, sin embargo, ese resultado no se puede alcanzar por deterioro del ADN en las muestras de restos obtenidos, por la escasez de las muestras dada la practica de exhumaciones clandestinas o por falta de muestras de parientes para comparacion. El trabajo explora las preguntas que se abren entonces, tanto respecto de la posibilidad de que otra clase de pruebas forenses sean aceptables y suficientes como sobre el trato que se debe dar a los restos cuya identificacion no resulta actualmente posible.
The Evidence Act, 2011, repealed the old Evidence Act. In doing so, the new Act introduced some changes in the Law of Evidence. Ever since, there has been an urgent need for scholastic guidance, in ...the proper approach to the interpretation of the provisions embodying those changes. This is particularly so, as the courts have been issuing contradictory interpretations of these provisions. In his new book, Law of Evidence in Nigeria: Practice and Procedure, the veteran author and urbane man of letters, Professor Simon Uchenna Ortuanya, masterfully plumbs the intention of the draft's persons of the Act. The result is a five-hundred-and-forty-page treatise of redoubtable erudition. The succinct titles of the different chapters are quite captivating just as the logical presentations of ideas are very illuminating. The book bears the imprints of the erudite author's versatility in the Law of Evidence - a course he has taught, admirably, in two public universities years.
This book focuses on three European asylum procedures and the evidentiary assessment carried out in these. The interrelationship between these procedures and legal systems influencing them is ...explored and questions in relation to the harmonizing strivings of EU are posed.
Esta investigación se aproxima al estudio comparado de la historia del derecho mirando aspectos de la vida y obra de John H. Wigmore. Se ofrece, primero, una definición del estudio comparado de la ...historia del derecho. En segundo lugar, se aborda un mosaico de inquietudes que Wigmore experimentó y vivió. Se explora allí un diálogo troncal del referido jurista con el derecho relativo a la prueba (evidence), un diálogo auxiliar con otras disciplinas y un hilo conductor que se presenta en su interés por la historia del derecho y el derecho comparado. Se advierte entonces sobre el papel que distintos actores pueden tener en el desarrollo de una disciplina autónoma, al tiempo que interactúan con otros actores en diversas jurisdicciones.
This is the first textbook to set the Scots law of evidence against a modern backdrop of legal thought and empirical research. It examines the non-legal dimensions of evidence and proof through the ...lens of legal philosophy, procedure, sociology, science and psychology to analyse the contexts that affect the handling of facts and the process of proof in Scotland. Drawing extensively on socio-legal research, the book provides an accurate picture of how fact-finding works in Scotland – giving students the foundation for a complete, critical and contextual understanding of Scots evidence law.
In their article, 'Four thresholds of doli incapax in Australia: Inconsistency or uniformity for children's criminal responsibility?', Dominique Moritz and Mac Tuomi outline the inconsistent ...thresholds applied in different jurisdictions. They argue that reform is necessary to ensure that children are protected against criminal culpability on a consistent basis.
This is the first textbook to set Scots evidence law against a modern backdrop of legal and empirical research. It examines the non-legal dimensions of evidence and proof through the lens of legal ...philosophy, procedure, sociology, science and psychology to analyse the contexts that affect the handling of facts and the process of proof.
Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting ...goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists. Their task has required them to employ what they think they know about the ability and motivations of witnesses to perceive, store, and retrieve information; about the effects of the litigation process on testimony and other evidence; and about our capacity to comprehend and evaluate evidence. These are the same phenomena that cognitive and social psychologists systematically study.
The rules of evidence have evolved to restrain lawyers from using the most robust weapons of influence, and to direct judges to exclude certain categories of information, limit it, or instruct juries on how to think about it. Evidence law regulates the form of questions lawyers may ask, filters expert testimony, requires witnesses to take oaths, and aims to give lawyers and factfinders the tools they need to assess witnesses' reliability. But without a thorough grounding in psychology, is the "common sense" of the rulemakers as they create these rules always, or even usually, correct? And when it is not, how can the rules be fixed?
Addressed to those in both law and psychology,The Psychological Foundations of Evidence Lawdraws on the best current psychological research-based knowledge to identify and evaluate the choices implicit in the rules of evidence, and to suggest alternatives that psychology reveals as better for accomplishing the law's goals.
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