Publisher's Synopsis
This innovative text and materials title draws together in one volume essential cases, statutes and practical readings on civil and criminal evidence, linked by an extensive interpretative commentary. Explaining a conceptually difficult topic with the utmost clarity, this work has the flow and coherence of a textbook and exposes the reader to a variety of materials from a diversity of sources. Accessible and detailed, and written with the needs of the student in mind, the text provides a firm grounding in the rules of evidence and the relationship between evidence and procedure.