- 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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