Judicial warnings about unreliable evidence: why, when and how?

Title: Judicial warnings about unreliable evidence: why, when and how?
Creator: Anderson, John
Relation: Critical Perspectives on the Uniform Evidence Law p. 142-157
Relation: http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781760021368
Publisher: Federation Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2017
Description: Courts in the Australian common law adversarial system have long grappled with the broad epistemological questions of 'when can we rely on the testimony of a witness, and when should we be suspicious of his honesty, or his competence, or both?' Customarily the courts claim to know the answers to these questions through their 'accumulated experience' with the particular class of witness or kind of evidence adduced in various cases. This special curial knowledge has thus determined when authoritative judicial warnings or information are required to assist the jury in their 'search for the truth' and to minimise the risk of wrongful conviction in the context of a fair trial.
Subject: unreliable evidence; Australian common law; evidence; uniform evidence law
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1395825
Identifier: uon:33953
Identifier: ISBN:9781760021368
Language: eng

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