Principles of Evidence 5th Edition

Principles of Evidence fifth edition

• Provides invaluable assistance to students, academics and practitioners alike;
• Introduces a decolonial approach to South Africa’s law of evidence;
• Continues to assess the impact of the Constitution on the rules of evidence;
• Analyses the bourgeoning body of case law dealing with the admissibility of evidence;
• Considers recent amendments impacting the child witness as well as the presentation of oral evidence more generally;
• Offers a separate discussion on statutory provisions regulating matters as diverse as, for example, sexual history evidence and the admissibility of electronic evidence;
• Incorporates discussions about proof within the context of the global ‘New Evidence Scholarship’ movement;
• Provides critical commentary and suggestions for law reform.