Evidence and Proof in Scotland: Context and Critique
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 657
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474412001
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first book to provide a comprehensive coverage (378 pages) of the main contexts affecting the handling of facts (both in and outwith court) in a legal system. It took 10 years to produce and drew on a wide variety of disciplines such as epistemology, comparative legal procedure, sociology of law, philosophy and sociology of science, probabilities theory; psychology, logic and narratology. The book provides a thematic exploration of whether the processes of evidence and proof in Scotland achieve their purported aims to ascertain truth and ensure justice through rational means, and provides detailed suggestions for reform.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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